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Quotes About Time

I used to rule my world from a pay phone And ships out on the sea. But now times are rough And I got too much stuff; Can't explain the likes of me. But there's this one particular harbour, So far but yet so near. Where I see the days as they fade away, And finally disappear.
~ James William "Jimmy" Buffett
I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let those winds of time blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
~ James William "Jimmy" Buffett
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.I have wasted my life.
~ James Wright
In the dark night of the soul, it is always three A.M.
~ Jameson Parker
Each attractive form that shows its face to you, Destiny will soon steal it from the eyes of you. Go and give your heart to someone who in all turns of existence Always has been with you and always will be with you.
~ Jami
What if I start making art again? What if I just did that? That is the thing I love, that is the thing I miss the most. For so long I have believed I could never catch up, but now I realize there's nothing to catch up to, there's only what I choose to make. There's still time, I think. I have so much time left.
~ Jami Attenberg
and wasn't life full of layers and nuances, colored all kinds of shades of gray, and the way you felt about something when you were twenty or thirty or forty was not how you would feel about something when you were fifty or sixty or seventy---if only he could explain to her that regret can come at any time in your life, when you least expect it, and then you are stuck with it forever.
~ Jami Attenberg
But I get it; it's a way to mark time. When your life's too busy, it forces you to check in with yourself. Or when it feels all the same all the time, maybe it can make you feel special.
~ Jami Attenberg
For so long I have believed I could never catch up, but now I realize there's nothing to catch up to, there's only what I choose to make. There's still time, I think. I have so much time left.
~ Jami Attenberg
Cock size was a thing she hadn't talked about since college, now that she thought about it. Who discusses such things when they get older? Who has the leisure time?)
~ Jami Attenberg
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
~ Jami Gertz
Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will... you'll never get over him. You're going to wake up one day and realize what you've done, and you're going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.
~ Jamie
I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.
~ Jamie Foxx
Indeed, the same millisecond of time can give birth to acts both poisonous and regenerative, both craven and noble, both trivial and momentous, as well as all gradations between.
~ Jamie Langston Turner
Squander your youth," he wanted to say, "and you'll have a lifetime to make heavy payments.
~ Jamie Langston Turner
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
There is nothing you will regret more in your life — nothing — than not being present for your children
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Why was he so sad? His son was his son no matter his breeks. But he looked so grown-up in his trousers. Had he tried to keep him a boy and why had he tried it? I wasn't being thick, nor mean, he wanted to say. It's not the time for a boy to be a man. Wait till the war was over.
~ Jamie O'Neill
There's time enough, though. Time enough to learn everything about one another. That's the adventure. And the longer it takes just means we'll never get bored.
~ Jamie S. Rich
my only complaints are two: that I didn't make myself ready for you sooner in life, that I can't give you better, Love you more.
~ Jan Beatty
Resting in this moment, we have no age.
~ Jan Chozen Bays
If the head can keep the thought in the moment of death, just for a brief time, than the head, which just felt on the ground, was a surprised head.
~ Jan Guillou
It took a great deal of force and time to deal with these barricades, and victory was elusive.
~ Jan Guillou