Quotes About Time

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.

The statement by Paul McCartney that, although he was a pacifist, he couldn't be at this time of war. Which is as daft as being a vegetarian between meals.

The past is another country, but the Seventies is another planet.

The future is always beginning now.

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems, And what is invisible stays that way.

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

How can I sing? Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same. I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

I grow into my death. My life is small and getting smaller. The world is green. Nothing is all.

Will the same day ever come back, and with it Our amazement at having been in it, or will only a dark haze Spread at the back of the mind, erasing events, one after The other, so brief they may have been lost to begin with?

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything.

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

There is something you have that all of the most wildly successful people in our history have also had. Twenty four hours in a day.

Forgive an old man his memories," Pino said. "Some loves never die.

sometime with them.

Love," Pino said. "They played con smania, with passion, but the passion came from love. There's no other explanation. All great things come from love, don't they?" "I guess they do," Anna said, and looked away. "The worst things, too." "What does that mean? "Another time, Pino. Right now, I'm too happy.

Every day that you get up out of bed, every day God gives you on this earth, is an opportunity for you. He gives you each day to do with it whatever you want. You can waste it, or you can use it for good. Just remember, what you choose to do with each day is very important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it, and you don't know how many days you will have. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. All you will have is whatever you traded this day for.

You see, the longer you put a problem off, the worse it becomes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, Aprll, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.