Quotes About Time

none of it is quite what it was this time the previous day.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells

anachronistic

Nevertheless, he didn't take offense at being an object of suspicion, because such scrutiny was a wise protocol. Ganesh Patel rarely took offense at anything; to do so was a waste of emotional energy. Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.

No matter how attentive their people were, dogs spent more time waiting than doing.

Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself.

Isolation is a wall against fear and despair. Only nature, quiet, and time for reflection can heal her. If she can be healed.

A man's life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.

After twenty-six months on Jacob's Ladder, her fear has largely faded

emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically

Atropos was the goddess who cut the thread of life.

She was only twenty-two, and although she had not been gently used, it would be quite a few years before men stopped buying jewelry for her.

To everything there is a season, A time to kill and a time to heal

Your sixteen days to late you son of a bitch- Travis, Whatchers

in the middle of that highway nineteen years earlier.

Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever.

you have a great deal of time to fill. The most pleasant way to fill it is by studying and learning things. One of the things Woody had greatly enjoyed learning was classical mythology.

A few thousand years of weather will eventually reduce a city to its component elements and fields of rubble, though its more restive citizens are likely to get the job done faster.

Parker is twenty-three years old, celebrating his birthday

Hearts and minds heal with time, which is a grace of the human condition

Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.

As the universe relentlessly expanded, the stars moved ever farther from Earth, until in a distant time after the end of the human era, maybe the night sky would no longer be richly diamonded, but would offer blackness relieved solely by the moon that reflected the light of the only star that would ever matter, the sun in its

THE EARLY SKY WAS CLEAR AND DEEP. THE snow-mantled meadow lay as bright and clean as the morning after death, when time will have defeated time and all will have been redeemed.

all of time—past, present, and future—was complete in the instant of the big bang. Therefore the past and the future were contained in the present. If the future of this timeline was here to be known right now, there might be people gifted enough to see what most could not.