Quotes About Time

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

Death comes, old man. Its hand is on your heart now. And your life has been spent in vain.

Death was something that happened to everyone - only the timing is different, for each of us.

Give it another five minutes. No force in the known universe can make a gang of folks naming their organization in Latin do much of anything on time. If they're all there by four, we'll know there's some kind of black magic involved.

November is not a good time to be sailing on Lake Michigan, Harry." "The aftermath of a nuclear holocaust isn't a good time to be sailing there, either.

And I had a hole in my chest that was going to take time to heal. But after a lot of time, and hurt, it would heal.

age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

Does each song, he wondered, have a certain time and place-beyond the subjective aspects of technique and talent-when it is perfectly played by the performer, or perfectly received by the listener? If so, he wondered, what if by some huge cosmic coincidence both occurred simultaneously? He felt he had just witnessed such a phenomenon. Could the same process occur with other art forms?

O melhor sinal da riqueza não é manter uma agenda lotada, mas ter tempo disponível para se concentrar no que é importante.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.

Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love.

I hope to define my life, whatever is left, by migrations, south and north with the birds and far from the metallic fever of clocks, the self staring at the clock saying, "I must do this." I can't tell the time on the tongue of the river in the cool morning air, the smell of the ferment of greenery, the dust off the canyon's rock walls, the swallows swooping above the scent of raw water.

another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin clocks but break down at inappropriate times.

It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat down on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.

We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone twice.

The present passes too quickly to notice and I've never had a grip on the future, even as an idea.

Young people seem not to know that they are going to get old, but older people know that they are not going to become young again.

Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost imperceptible breeze. — Jim Harrison, from "Cold Poem," Saving Daylight . (Copper Canyon Press 2006)

Some nights are three nights long, some days a mere noon hour, then whistled back to work, the heart dredging sludge.