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Quotes About Time

She had not thought that the ghost of her husband would come early—in life he was always late for everything
~ Philippa Gregory
It is always harder to make time for the truly precious experiences; there is always the ordinary to do." "To
~ Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory
~ Unknown
What will happen when I am old and I can dance no more?
~ Philippa Gregory
risk to my life, I could not become one of those. I was a young woman living at the very heart of a world that was starting to ask questions, living at a time when men and women thought that questions were the most important thing. And who could say where these questions might take us? The tables that had come from my father for John Dee might contain a
~ Philippa Gregory
Without substantial institutional resources, it is difficult for long-term chronic users to figure out how to pass the time of day. They have to construct a new personal sense of meaning and dignity. Instead, they often fall back on their more familiar and persuasive righteous dopefiend ways of being in the world, and they seek out old drug-using friends and acquaintances.
~ Unknown
Choosing is Aging.
~ Philippe Soupault
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
~ Phillip Lopate
Housewives more than any other race deserve well-furnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time.
~ Phyllis McGinley
If he went any slower, it would be Monday by the time he got there," said Josh. "If he went any slower, the Malloys could be moved out and back to Ohio," Wally observed.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Be right back," Jake told her. Wally said nothing. He was thinking how their last words to her would be "Be right back," and twenty years later they'd get out of prison.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
~ Pico Iyer
God exists only if adored Time is nothing if one has not dreamed (Painting)
~ Pierre Reverdy
Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and dissolving our narrow standards or measurement reveal to us the dimensions of God.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement — that is to say, in duration.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
for certain limited purposes it may be useful to think of phenomena as isolated statically in time, they are in point of fact never static:
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
El pasado me ha revelado la estructura del futuro
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Men's pleasure swells in a brief space of time,   and likewise falls to the ground, shaken by an adverse judgement.
~ Pindar
Kötülük ölümden daha h?zl? koÅŸar.
~ Platon
Time is the moving image of reality
~ Plato
Time is the moving image of eternity.
~ Plato
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
~ Plato
What else can one do in the time before sunset?
~ Plato
Then the good and wise judge whom we are seeking is not this man, but the other; for vice cannot know virtue too, but a virtuous nature, educated by time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue and vice: the virtuous, and not the vicious, man has wisdom—in my opinion.
~ Plato