Quotes About Time

In any case, age is nothing more than the acquisition of Temporal Perspective! Oh, and rheumatism too, I must add.

The dreaded November 18, 2048, at around 2:47 PM Eastern Time, plus or minus a few minutes, is when we go Boom.

Time had healed her of it, time and joyful circumstances of a personal nature.

While you were never properly welcomed, you were a dependable relief for us all, in the end, at the proper time for each one of us .

Do you have to be there exactly at seven?" Gracie asks, as she stands before my tiny sink mirror and pulls back her eyelid and looks deeply inside her eyeball. At least that's what it looks to me like she's doing. . . . But she tells me she's curling her eyelashes

The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night,— Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days!

Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

Conceptually, the energy systems are intensity dependent, not time dependent.

Often an athlete will not see the true results of a significant investment in training for up to a year after the initial training stimulus.

Biological age is much more important than chronological age.

Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do and plenty of time in which to do it.

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

She remembered reading somewhere that although the body ages and weakens, and the mind grows older and sometimes slower too, the human spirit never ages. When we age we may have difficulty in climbing stairs or leaping over fences, and our memories may not be quite as sharp as they were at 14, but we still feel the same inside as we felt when we were young and were just setting out on the great adventure which is life.

Fifty years of internal damage done by the time-self is healed instantaneously by the entrance of the eternal self.

Five seconds, ten seconds, more change than ten thousand years of a human civilization. A billion trillion constructions, mold curling out from every wall, rebuilding what had been merely superhuman.

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time.

While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience. Of

welts long enough for them to grow eyes. Nature does indeed prefer that cobblies be created right before the Dark.

It is an edged cliché that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that the weather is not so driven, that everywhere there is a sense of slowing down, and most places experience a few years where the summers do not burn and the winters are not yet overly fierce. It is the classic time of romance. It's a time that seductively beckons higher creatures to relax, postpone. It's the last chance to prepare for the end of the world.

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.

The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before