Quotes About Time

present-time Events are somehow being formed by the future, and the future is somehow looping back into present

past states, across time and space, simply on the basis of similarity with present states. . . .

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Mientras terminaba la correa que me había ayudado a comenzar,perdida en mis meditaciones, le agradecí en silencio por el tiempo que había dedicado a hablar conmigo, más que por el arte que me había transmitido, pues descubría que lo más valioso que tienen los demás para darnos es su tiempo. El tiempo al cual la muerte le da su valor.

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella?

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella? Ve lo dicano gli astronomi. Quanti secoli ci vollero al sentimento umano per concertarsi in coscienza? Lo dicano gli antropologi.

Gli uomini empiono il tempo, e le grandi opere lo allargano.

Che vale poter vedere in quarant'anni dieci volte, in vece che una, le quattro parti del mondo? Né il mondo s'allarga né la vita s'allunga per ciò; e chi pensa troppo, correrà sempre fuori di quei limiti nell'infinito, nel mistero senza luce.

Onorate il passato e affrettate il futuro; ma vivete nel presente coll'umiltà e coll'attività di chi sente la propria impotenza e insieme il bisogno di trovare la virtù.

In time the Rockies may crumble,Gibraltar may tumble(They're only made of clay),But our love is here to stay.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

History, like thermodynamics, won't let you out.

I am the happiest man alive. And if I live to be a hundred, these past few days with you will be the standard I measure the world against.

Beautiful hours move so quickly.

Beautiful hours move so quickly. ? Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly . (Berkley; 2nd ed. edition January 4, 2005) Originally published 1966

But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever.

Yesterday is the cancelled cheque, tomorrow is the promisery note and today is the cash u have so spend it wisely .

It was at 25, not 15, that I began to write. Yes, there were attempts before, writing attempts, but they were the mere scribbling of a child who through no fault of her own knew only half an alphabet. Now, in my 27th year, it is appetite I have, and abundance to garner. I can make up for lost time—and time is what I have to seek some truths and pull together some lost pieces. It's okay. I'll do it. I'll make up those years.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

said we'll discuss it when I commit." She smoothed the area under the eye crevice. "I wonder who they think it is. . . ." He watched her for a moment without speaking. "Louisiana in October isn't too unpleasant. We could take a jaunt down to New Orleans. The department owes me some time, and Jane might like it." "You're not invited." She made

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.