Quotes About Time

Housekeeping, to her, was a way to cultivate a woman's submission and steal time, and she wanted nothing of it.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.

You never know when family won't be around anymore, you know?

I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.

Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father. You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good. Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way.

But I wouldn't mind if You included a Prince Charles in my story. Charming!" Millie shook her head. "I meant Prince Charming. Really, Lord. Time to pray about something else...

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

I feel terribly strange, like a shadow, and full of dread. I dread the time ahead, the amputating time, I do not see how to manage it. I do not want the world to go dark and narrow and mean, and the world has been very unlovely in my eyes, and I very unlovely in it…

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

If there is a war, then all of the things most of us do won't matter any more. I have a feeling that one has to work all day and all night and live too, and swim and get the sun one's hair and laugh and love as many people as one can find around and do this all terribly fast, because the time getting shorter and shorter every day.

I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I was the briefest object in the landscape.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

Sometimes the long view is not what I need. I need this moment, without hostage to past or future, experienced for itself alone.

This is the only day I have for sure. May I use it well.

It's not going to make a very good story, in the annals of my time as sister queen." She quoted dryly, "'Then her consort jumped up and knocked the foreign queen unconscious with a kettle.