Quotes About Time

my experience taught me that most emergencies are nothing of the kind, and you can figure that out if you take time to catch your breath.

But orbital mechanics waits for no man,

most of us are rarely inside the present moment. We spend a disproportionate amount of time plotting the future or revisiting past events. But when we swim, or shower, or take a bath, we have little choice but to position ourselves in the present, giving our thoughts room to float and wander

Nobility and freedom were inseparable, and the nomad was free. In the desert a man was conscious of being the lord of space, and in virtue of that lordship he escaped in a sense from the domination of time. By striking camp he sloughed off his yesterdays; and tomorrow seemed less of a fatality if its where as well as its when had yet to come. But the townsman was a prisoner; and to be fixed in one place, ­ yesterday, today, tomorrow - was to be a target for time, the ruiner of all things.

It is the only way of meeting the deadline, they think.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

There are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!

Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.

The insanity of our rulers also calls down punishments upon us which we have merited for a long time so that our princes become insane and mad and let the Turk come into the land.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

There is a legend that everything wasted on the earth is stored and treasured on the moon: unfulfilled dreams, broken vows, unanswered prayers, wasted time

Just as you are now, so have I been; Just as I am now, so shall you be.

But it remains a fundamental challenge to understand the very beginning-this must await a 'final' theory, perhaps some variant of superstrings. Such a theory would signal the end of an intellectual quest that started with Newton, and continued through Maxwell, Einstein, and their successors. It would deepen our understanding of space, time, and the basic forces, as well as elucidating the ultra-early universe and the centres of black holes.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.

À long terme, ils montent. - À long terme, je suis mort. (Le cuisinier, p. 147)

As you are thinking about the past, the past you are thinking about the future.

Only in very special individuals is there a sense of a past continuous self.

We have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding and our Constitution surmount every adverse circumstance dreaded at the outset as beyond control.