Quotes About Time

if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

Back in the car, I sit for a long time, breathing. I'll remember this, what just happened, for a very long time. I'll be on my own deathbed someday, replaying this in my head, wishing it had gone differently. We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And this is the shittiest thing ever. "Are

Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I love most about Sonya. It's funny how things end, isn't it?

The monks sped up the process up for us laowai who have less time, less patience for basics, and a greater need for external markers of our accomplishments.

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

when are going

As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.

The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait while the world's ethicists work out some centuries-long paradigm shift in moral thought.

If all memories decay, what of them will really ever be left? What is it that's growing from out of the rotting material of old memories? Is every moment of the past simply gone forever? Why can't they be held intact somehow?

There's more that's happened than what's in your memory.

The true physician should have a therapeutic eye, which notices disease whenever it appears, not just when the time clock is running

the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

El aburrimiento es el mal de aquellos para los que el tiempo no tiene valor.

The fleeting experience of pleasure is dependent upon circumstance, on a specific location or moment in time. It is unstable by nature, and the sensation it evokes soon becomes neutral or even unpleasant. Likewise, when repeated it may grow insipid or even lead to disgust;

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves," Lord Chesterfield once told his son. This is the best path to gradual change.

The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.

In all of us is the design of the world, We have the ability to access and understand the universe. To become other forms. It's tea you drink now, in six hours it becomes you.

Combien d'êtres confus, passionnés ou timorés se sont égarés dans les aberrations d'une vie qui passe aussi rapidement qu'un geste furtif ?

It should be a pleasure to the appreciative reader, while recognizing their beauty, to cull these flowers of thought for the benefit of those who, less fortunate than himself, have not the time to indulge in literary pleasures.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.

The years went by too quickly, that was the trouble. By the time you figured out that the times you were living were the best, they were over and nothing more remained than a few blurry snapshots and a handful of memories.

Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.

A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon!