Quotes About Time

No matter how much one knows that something dreadful is going to happen in the future, one somehow never thinks it will be today.

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though, knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.

Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.

And if there was eternity, or even the idea of it, then perhaps Anselm was right; all things were possible.

It's only a moment, but ye feel as though it will last forever. Strange, is it no? he said thoughtfully. Ye can almost see the light go as ye watch - and yet there's no time ye can look and say 'Now! Now it's night.

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy, dubious as its moral underpinning might be

Aye, I see. Aye well, I suppose if I shall be in Scotland, and still married to you—then maybe 'when' doesna matter so much.

It's two hundred year, in the Highland tales—when folk fall asleep on fairy duns and end up dancing all night wi' the Auld Folk; it's usually two hundred year later when they come back to their own place.

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy

As for sweeping the floor, polishing the windows, dusting, and general drudgery of that sort Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

along. It was a week after we had set out, in a

Diana Gabaldon

Just as a signpost warns of rockfalls near a cliff-edge, the standing stones were meant to mark a spot of danger. A spot where Ã¢â'¬Â¦ what? Where the crust of time was thin? Where a gate of some sort stood ajar? Not that the makers of the circles would have known what it was they were marking. To them, the spot would have been one of terrible mystery and powerful magic; a spot where people disappeared without warning. Or appeared, perhaps, out of thin air.

He pulled himself gently from my grasp without answering and stood back, suddenly a figure from another time, seen in relief upon a background of hazy hills, the life in his face a trick of the shadowing rock, as if flattened beneath layers of paint, an artist's reminiscence of forgotten places and passions turned to dust.

hostess out there. After all, we've been married almost

Había amado a Frank, todavía lo amaba y amaba a Jamie más que a mi propia vida. Pero restringida por los límites del tiempo y la carne, no podía tener a ambos. ¿y mas allá quizás? ¿había un lugar donde el tiempo no existía o se detenía?. Anselm creía que si. Un sitio donde todo era posible y nada era necesario.

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you. I

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important. I

When the day shall come that we do part, he said softly, and turned to look at me, if my last words are not 'I love you' - ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

Brianna was twenty-three. She might be no more than in her mid-thirties by the time Jem was fully independent. And if he no longer needed her care—she and Roger might possibly go back. Back to her own time, to safety—to the interrupted life that had been hers by birth. But only if she had no further children, whose helplessness would keep her here.

Diana Gabaldon

Weel, lass, d'ye mean us to stand here until we're melted away like sugar in a dish o' tea?

When?" "Now," he said, and took my elbow. "There is no time to lose.

Diana Gabaldon