Quotes About Time

When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.

Your guardian angel must have been working over time,' Penny laughed shakily. Rose laughed as she put her arms around her sister and hugged her. 'More like the Devil taking care of his own.

For the past is not fixed: it changes as we change, and we look back and perceive in it different messages, different patterns. Our past selves speak to our future selves. We are part of a continuing process.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE All during the time that Dr.

The union of two natures for a time is so great

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.

Look ahead into the past, and back into the future, until the silence.

The river flowed both ways.

Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan

But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.

Margaret Mazzantini

At which point exactly does the past give way to the present, and does time ever intersect? Through years of occupations, this house on Rákóczi út was forced to give way to new inhabitants. Just by being here, standing here in from of this house, we are bringing them all back, through memory.

Rickman heard the plaintive note in Foster's voice, and they exchanged a quick, amused glance. Foster misunderstood. 'Him?' he exclaimed. 'The rugged Roman profile was all very well in Gladiator, but we're in the twenty-first century now, love.' 'Funny,' she shot back, 'I keep getting a whiff of caveman. Just so you know — the

Rosebuds might be sweet, but one need never be so careful of the rose in full bloom.

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

more powerful than all the armies in the world is an idea whose time is come'.

The older you get, the higher you wear your underwear. Like rings on a tree. Eighty, ninety years old, your breasts are inside them. When you die, they just pull them up over your head.