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Quotes About Time

From seven in the morning until half past one the next morning -- that's quite a record time for a visitor to stay at a museum, [Henry Ford] continued. It proves that you may be even more interested in mechanics than I am. And you almost have to be a fanatic to compete with me. That's certainly something! he exclaimed, grinning broad approval of our common bond.
~ Diego Rivera
Democrats offered blacks some of the same security that blacks had during slavery—in which the basic needs of blacks were met on the plantation—and blacks, during a desperate time, went for it.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
We are rushing, always thinking of the future, of our destination, focusing on what is four hours, or four hundred miles, or four years ahead, and constantly missing what is right there, just then, at the moment.
~ Dinty W. Moore
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.
~ Dodie Smith
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
~ Dodie Smith
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
~ Dodie Smith
While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me...
~ Dodie Smith
With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
~ Dodie Smith
I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
~ Dodie Smith
As long as I live I shall remember that silent minute.
~ Dodie Smith
There's nothing more, except that I usually sit down until the flames die down and try to think myself back into the past.
~ Dodie Smith
I decided that it was like the difference between the beautiful old Godsend graves and the new ones open to receive coffins (which I never can bear to look at); that time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
How queer to think that the old lady in the black military cloak was the Miss Milly who went to the dancing class! It makes me wonder what I shall be like when I am old.
~ Dodie Smith
I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.
~ Dodie Smith
Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don't notice it if you are born with it, but it does seem to me that the climate of richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the edge off joy as well as off sorrow.
~ Dodie Smith
Ab has just walked in, mewing- it must be tea-time; that cat has a clock in his stomach.
~ Dodie Smith
The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization.
~ Dogen
The longness and shortness of the present moment can be recognized by utilizing a big image of the moon, which is reflecting on the surface of the ocean, and a small image of the moon on the surface of a cup of water, or in another example the very wide scale of the whole sky itself, and the very narrow space of the moon, which is shining in the sky.
~ Dogen Zenji
Time is actually speeding up (or collapsing). For thousands of years the Schumann Resonance or pulse (heartbeat) of Earth has been 7.83 cycles per second. The military have used this as a very reliable reference. However, since 1980 this resonance has been slowly rising. It is now over 12 cycles per second! This means there is the equivalent of less than 16 hours per day instead of the old 24 hours.
~ Dolores Cannon
So each round in the game is when you are alive here on Earth. Your spirit is here playing the game. Then when you die that is the end of that particular round. If you decide you want to play another round, then you are born again. Or if you want to drop out for a round or two, then you do. And time passes, and later on if you decide you want to play another round of the game you are born again.
~ Dolores Cannon
It is time to awaken!" "You have a mission! It is time to begin!" "Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!
~ Dolores Cannon
As we have no concept of time, each of you has already been each other and are being each other in your future. We know this is not very clear to you at this time. However, each of you will be given information in your near future, in which each of you will be challenged to examine this concept. That is: the past and present simultaneous with the future.
~ Dolores Cannon
Developer Samuel E. Gross] became an advocate of the eight-hour day, partly because this would allow a workman enough time to manage a long commute.
~ Unknown