Quotes About Time

Most awkwardly, in the middle of all this [the Vietnam War], TIME reported that a group secretly financed by the CIA had funded Graham's Latin American crusade, which came as a complete surprise to Graham and prompted a repudiation: "I would never accept funds from any government agency," he declared, "especially the CIA.

What counts is how many years you get before losing your marbles,

Very few people are remembered for long after they're in the ground.

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Without a past you can't have a future.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

So, will you be one of the ten percent who will change the world? Be a hero. It's time to make your stand in life. It's time for you to be an agent of change. It's time for you to make a difference.

Tests that take too long to run end up not being run.

Secrecy is a fragile state, a single time undone and forever finished.

The internet, wrote Nicholas Carr in The Shallows, his book about brain science and screen time, steadily chips away at one's "capacity for concentration and contemplation.

Some items had been in place for so long that the trees grew around them. A claw hammer was nearly swallowed by a tree trunk, impossible to remove, and Hughes said that this hammer, more than anything, made him realize how long Knight had lived there.

Robert Bertolet. "One of the things was when

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

So a contemporary wedding is like the Olympic Games, a spectacle of detailed research and preparation but lasts only a short time. Even if it all goes according to plan, a wedding is over in a day, much of it spent being ordered around by photographers, and when the audience is gone and the costumes returned to their boxes (never again to be taken out), an ordinary man and woman look to each other and think: 'Is this all it is?

Only Robinson Crusoe got it all done by Friday!

teems of times and happy returns. The same anew'.

We should beware of the errors of judging eras and places according to the prevailing standards of here and now.

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

How difficult it is to see even what's in front of one's eyes. All we possess is the present, and the present endlessly dissolves into the past." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

And when all our eyes are closed, when even the ghosts have gone, what will be left of our beloved world?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen