Quotes About Time

Life is what is happening today while you were planning tomorrow

Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans...

La vida es aquello que ta sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. You better believe it.

Life is something that happens while you're busy making other plans.

Everybody does die, Orel. That's a fact." "I'll grant you that, but they live first. That's the part that counts. The living part. You can't wait around doing nothing because everybody's going to die. I mean, in a hundred years, we're all dead, right?

Precisely because [historians'] detachment from and elevation above the landscape of the past, historians are able to manipulate time and space in ways they never could manage as normal people. They can compress these dimensions, expand them, compare them, measure them, and even transcend them, almost as poets, playwrights, novelists, and film-makers do. Historians have always been, in this sense, abstractionists: the literal representation of reality is not their task.

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

I marvel at animal behaviour but it never surprises me. Nature has had a long time to hone its secret skills.

Women look their oldest at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.

It is impossible to test accurately how long a severed head remains conscious, if at all. The best estimate is between five and thirteen seconds.

Douglas, I've made a few small changes to acknowledge the passing of the years. Hope you're alive and well in some parallel universe - you're sadly missed in this one. John Lloyd, Oxfordshire, 2013

80% of plane crashes occur in the first three or last eight minutes of a flight.

The time machine in Back to the Future was originally going to be a fridge; it was changed to a car in case it encouraged children to climb into fridges.

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time".

You can satisfy some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot satisfy all of the people all the time

All this together is called the "immune response," and once the immune system is mobilized, it is formidable indeed. But all this takes time. The delay can allow infections to gain a foothold in the body, even to advance in raging cadres that can kill.

The purpose of school, Zimbardo notes, is to turn present-oriented little beasts into responsible future-oriented children.

Trust is needed also in transactions that take time to complete. People are reluctant to invest in the absence of some assurance that the others' promises will be kept. For these and other reasons, a modern market economy needs a platform sturdy enough to support highly complex dealings.

It takes as long as it takes.

If geologic time could somehow be seen in the perspective of human time, on the other hand, sea level would be rising and falling hundreds of feet, ice would come pouring over continents and as quickly go away . . . continents would crawl like amoebae, rivers would arrive and disappear like rainstreaks down an umbrella, lakes would go away like puddles after rain, and volcanoes would light the earth as if it were a garden of fireflies.

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.