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Quotes About Time

Time punishes those who stray from the path of dharma. Console yourself with the belief that this is the will of God.
~ Unknown
Quiero la esencia. Mi alma tiene prisa...
~ Unknown
Se hizo de noche. Las campanadas de la iglesia a los lejos la aclararon. Había olvidado su propia muerte.
~ Unknown
A relationship is like a pet; you have to work and work, just to keep it healthy.
~ Unknown
Na een paar maanden constateert hij [Goethe] dat het hem zwaar valt rekenschap af te leggen van zijn verblijf, want - zo noteert hij op 25 januari 1787 - 'zoals men merkt dat de zee steeds dieper wordt naarmate men haar verder opvaart, zo vergaat het ook mij bij het beschouwen van deze stad'. Zich Rome werkelijk toe-eigenen vergt een mensenleven - zo verzucht de auteur enkele maanden later - 'of zelfs het leven van vele mensen, die stap voor stap van elkaar leren.
~ Unknown
There's always time to launch your dreams
~ Maat Morrison
How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can't understand a thing
~ Unknown
Hay en muchos, quizás en todos, la certeza de un eterno existir personal, pero nadie creyó que la figura humana personal misma pudiera ser retenida eterna por el amor. Y sin esta permanencia corporal cada uno solo conocería el eterno existir de sí mismo, existir que ni eterno ni pasajero vale nada, un minuto o mil siglos ningún sentido tienen.
~ Unknown
Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de réis
~ Machado de Assis
O mais feroz dos animais domésticos é o relógio de parede. Conheço um que já devorou três gerações da minha família.
~ Machado de Assis
Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor dá de graça aos vermes.
~ Machado de Assis
Nineteen months ago, he mourned, partridges were here. Nineteen months ago the open pine forest was compassionate. What rare concentrated tragedies will have occurred within another nineteen months—not here, for this place has bred a tragedy greater than any recorded in the Nation's past—but elsewhere, all over the South, through back roads and on wharves and in legislative rooms, in foundries which rust because the fires have gone out?
~ Unknown
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
~ Unknown
Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
~ Madeleine Albright
This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
~ Madeleine Albright
Historie se žije dopÃ…â"¢edu, ale píÅ¡e dozadu.
~ Madeleine Albright
Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.
~ Unknown
Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
person who is learning has less time to think about growing old. I also enjoy surprising people
~ Madeleine K. Albright
While disease is a mugger, age is a cat burglar who steals but a single day each night; and the thief has learned patience.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
We see long-term planning as necessary and deliberation as a virtue, but when we decide that action is urgently needed, our tolerance for delay disappears.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Uncontrolled migration produces social friction not because many refugees are criminals and terrorists (they aren't), but because living side by side with strangers requires two precious commodities: goodwill and time. Both are necessary to build trust; neither is as widely available as we would like.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.
~ Madeleine Thien