Quotes About Time

Plant your seed of trust. It will grow in its season.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time." No one has lived your life before. It is an adventure worth taking.

When we live in our thoughts of the past and future, everything seems distant, hurried, or unfulfilled.

Patience is a virtue best left to the dead, who can afford it,

GMT was originally defined by the transit

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

For maximum effectiveness, you should start your story at the time of the change that threatens your major character's self-concept.

That's how pathetic the NBA television contract was at the time. West vs. Robertson and Wilt vs. Kareem…and no TV of any kind.

Time is like a river. As soon as a thing is seen, it is carried away and another takes its place, and then that other is carried away also. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS         DAVE

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

The individual human life span is brief and, in the long view, inconsequential,' he said. 'We are children one day and signing out the next. Therefore, in the brief moment we are allotted, live reasonably, be compassionate, and when your hour comes, accept it without histrionics. Never forget that your handful of hours is a supreme gift. Use them wisely, do not fritter them away, and remember that your life is not an entitlement.

You wander around near Independence Park and the Hall of the People, and you get a sense that they will be there forever. But forever is a long time. The people who lived in Washington before the waters came probably thought that about their city. But it's all temporary, baby. Perpetuity is an illusion.

but loss is the one constant we all have to deal with. It's the price of living. We lose parents, friends, relatives. We lose the place we grew up in, and we lose the whole circle of our acquaintances. We spend ungodly amounts of time wondering whatever happened to former teachers and lovers and scoutmasters.

O time! The beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled— Time! The corrector where our judgments err, The test of truth, love, sole philosopher. —Lord Byron, Childe Harold IV, 1818

We don't fear death because we lose tomorrow, but because we lose yesterday, with its sweet poignancy, its memories of growing children, of friends and lovers, of all that we have known. Nobody else has really been there in the way we have. And when the lights go out for us, for you or me, the lights go out in that world, too.

Can a literary character be said to live a life from birth to death or otherwise to undergo a development from beginning to end? Or is a literary character-fixed on the pages of a book, trapped forever in the same few words and actions-the very opposite of a living, developing human being?

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read.

These few weeks can either be the longest or the shortest in our lives. But when you look back, you would realize that they were also the most rewarding.

Spend all your kisses.

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

Too often people are focused on the "urgent" at the expense of the important.