Quotes About Time

None of my friends live closer than a forty-five-minute drive from me, and the rest of my tribe lives in different time zones, but distance doesn't matter. Whenever we get together, it's like no time has passed.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Of course the fall semester didn't start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I'd be alive when it rolled around.

Paul had often told her that humanity's most precious commodity was time—"Not love," he had emphasized, "not because it's less important, but because you can run out of time, while love can be endlessly replenished"—

Sometime after seven o'clock, a distant church bell began to toll, and then another joined it, and another, until all the bells in a Springfield resounded with the terrible news.

There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.

I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.

Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

nfatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you're worked your way through it.

Sorry. I forgot your lust for small talk. And how have you been in the fourteen hours since we last spoke, eight of which you were sleeping?

I've been spending a lot of time out of here, Harry said. Thank God I don't have a date tonight. This would not be in easy smell to explain.

Infatuation lasts anywhere from six months to three years, and you can't know you've found the right person until you've worked your way through it. You quit

Sometimes, life is about what happens before death.

We're like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it. When

The doctor asked him to return when the swelling disappeared. Seville means to go back, he says, but he just doesn't have the time to spend commuting and hanging out in the waiting room. "I got to spend all day getting food and ready for the night, and then I got to spend all night staying warm.

You've got to make time. It's important. You know how they tell you on planes, in case of an emergency, the adults should put their oxygen masks on first? You're not going to be any good to anyone if you're not taking care of yourself.

Please, God, or whoever's up there, please just give me enough time to make it right.

Jo inhaled slowly, trying to think of all the time she'd had with her granddaughters, and not everything that she'd miss.

arrived in the afternoon, along with

the hours can feel long, but the years go by fast.

Bubbe and Zayde were old and small and wrinkly

none of which filled the hours that dragged by, until it was three o'clock and time to take the bus to Uncle Mel's. Each week, Bethie would

There are friends who tell you, "Someday you'll laugh about this." Susan's my best friend because, with her, "someday" is always now.

I remember McPhee's notes, penciled in the margins: If humor is tragedy plus time, this needs more time. It wasn't the first occasion I was forced to think about the line between funny and mean, between punching down, not up, to figure out how to write about the things that made me angry in a way that was powerful, not didactic or unhinged.