Quotes About Time

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

I think of beauty as something that dies; either it's destroyed by time or stupidity or I have only a moment to experience it, and then only memory after that; even if i can return and look again, I can't quite manage to get back the moment. So, to me, the beauty of the trees is like the beauty of death, as if death will mean wondering forever in the dim of those trees, the landscape funerealizes in its lushest profusion of green.

How long was a year anyway? Fifty-two weeks? Three hundred and sixty-five days? Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours?

Omnia Mutantur...

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

The Priddles were Irish twins, the second born ten months after the first, and

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

They live in unbridled pleasure; they offend Him, without thinking that each year they are closer to death.

Real love is a long apprenticeship.

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold hands across the sea of time, joining together the ones who went before and the ones who come after. It is given from above. Little do we understand this in the beginning, but time teaches us many things we did not expect to learn. That is life. It is the same everywhere.

As a simple fact. Many people think they can postpone repentance till the end. This is an illusion. Most men die as they have lived. If death is sudden, there is no time for it. If it comes gradually, there is usually little energy for the revision of an entire way of being.

We labor to preserve the life of the body, but ultimately life and death are out of our hands. If the patient lives awhile longer, a certain kind of good will result. If God ordains that this is the time to die, another kind of good will result.

do not understand why death is still at work. I think its time is short, and it will fiercely fight to the last gasp. It is this gasp we now endure. Until it is finished, evil will go on casting insults into the secret face of God and use us too!

I mean the breaking of continuity. When you lose your place in the stream of time, you become a person who is completely dependent on the social.

I don't mean to be critical, but you have been away from civilization for quite a long time. One's perspectives can narrow.

When everything is stripped down to its essential form, our faith is a belief in One who loves us; in Jesus, true God and true man, the only Christ, dwelling in the heart of His Church; in Him who was, who is, and who is to come—in You, O Lord! That is why our home is the universal Church, the throne on which you reign, a Church that is within time and yet outside of time.

Time is truly an illusion of the mind.

That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire".

There were no words passing through their minds, though the scene of violence did play and replay itself, and their own roles within it grew more heroic with the colorations that time will give to the simplest of events.

Negotiate time lines for diagnosis and action planning. Don't let yourself get caught up immediately in firefighting or be pressured to make calls before you're ready. Buy yourself some time, even if it's only a few weeks, to diagnose the new organization and come up with an action plan.

Devote some time to defining your learning agenda as early as possible, and return to it periodically to refine and supplement it. Efficient learning means identifying the best available sources of insight and then figuring out how to extract maximum insight with the least possible outlay of time.

It seemed scarcely a moment since she had made it back home