Quotes About Time

It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The German Empire had in its best time existed by grace of God and force of circumstances, more than by reason of a sound and perfect organism.

Time has effaced all positive knowledge of this aboriginal race;

customers do not need scope. They need to have business goals accomplished within some constraints of time and cost.

Commitment to deliver on time and on budget was not made based on the details; details didn't exist. Their commitment was based on the ability to shape the details.

It is very important to defer public commitment to exactly which features will be in the product, because this makes it possible to reliably release the product on time. The release date is guaranteed, but the exact features are not. Timebox—don't scopebox.

We determine scope at the beginning of system development, put a box around it, and figure out how long that scope will take to develop. This is the wrong approach.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

Time, on its own, heals nothing. ? Mary Rakow, The Memory Room . (Counterpoint, August 31, 2004) Originally published April 1st 2002.

His mouth felt cold to mine ; he neither opened his eyes, nor spoke, nor moved. I said in my heart, "Too late I am here within your cloak, I who never of my own will would have denied you anything. Time and death and change are unforgiving, and love lost in the time of youth never returns again.

You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

That is the life of the gods, who only seem to die like the sun at his setting. But do not ride too fast across the sky and leave us all in darkness.

I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She

Man's immortality is not to live for ever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Algunas veces piensas una cosa pero tardas algo más en sentirla.

Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist. He described the degrees of friendship, up from the self-seeking to the pure, when good is willed to the friend for the friend's own sake. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.

If one sat up as long as an hour past bedtime, except on Christmas and birthdays, one would be ill. Laurie, who had had this explained to him many times and accepted it as incontrovertible fact, inferred from it that after three hours one would probably die.

Often in those two months I said to myself, If I live, I will wipe this time from my mind; I cannot even bear the memory. Yet now I turn to it. He is gone; and all times when he was there seem like lost riches.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.