Quotes About Time

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time.

Maybe because is December. After all, only when we come to Revelation that we take stock of Genesis, right?

Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

This is the first mistake God make. Time. God was a fool to create time. It's the one thing that even he run out of. But me beyond time. Me in the now, which is now which is also then. Then is also soon and soon might as well be if.

Jah know, sometimes I don't learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. So

And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time. It's the way I've discovered to not do a damn thing.

after Tuesday come Wednesday. And what you do on Tuesday change the type of Wednesday that going come to you.

Detrás de la caja registradora hay un letrero que anuncia que si tu hamburguesa tarda más de quince minutos, no te la cobran. Hace dos días les mostré mi reloj de pulsera pasados dieciséis minutos y me dijeron que la norma sólo se aplica a las hamburguesas con queso.

is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.

My mother sings One day at a time sweet Jesus, and even Daddy likes to say that, one day at a time, as if it's some strategy for living. And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time.

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

Know something too late? Well, is better you never know, as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

Wife: Why don't you tell me that you love me? Husband: I told you I loved you thirty years ago when I married you. If I change my mind, I'll let you know.

There is time to do everything God wants me to do. There's not time to do everything. There's not time to do everything good. There's not time to do everything everyone else wants me to do. There's not even time to do everything I want to do. But, because God is God, there must be time to do everything He wants me to do.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

Let the kettle boil slowly... For stew boiled in haste is of no use to anyone.

I loved that bridge he built over the creek in the back of the house. [...] Or that baby bed he built for Ricky. I told him he didn't have to spend so much time on it, but he said it had to last, and the thing ended up weighing two hundred pounds and I couldn't move it. I said, 'How long does a baby bed have to last, anyway?' But maybe he thought if it was strong enough, it might keep Ricky a baby.

It takes much time and patience to perfect this practice, so do not be discouraged by failure. This habit is only developed with much difficulty. Yet when it is achieved, how great will be your joy!

In this time, if there is an ominous conspiracy underway in the United States, it would be the silent massive suspicion of a conspiracy which threatens home, job, status, the accustomed order of life.

Lamenting the past is a waste of time. I learned my lesson. Let's move on." That's one way of looking at regret—if only as a form of self-protection from the pain of knowing we missed out. We're comforted by the fact that no one is immune to regret (we're not alone) and that time heals all wounds (the only thing worse than experiencing pain is not knowing if and when the pain will go away).

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.

One day blurs into the next, one week is indistinguishable from another. Their existence consists of waiting for the weekend, then waiting for retirement, and then waiting for death.