Quotes About Time

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

Sara and I still find a way to talk for hours on the phone, or within the span of ten minutes somehow make it feel like it's been hours. Early in our relationship, when we lived apart for a time, we'd talk every night on the phone.

Eighty miles an hour, velocity becomes the measure of our progress, the speed of forgetting.

All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.

No, if you squinted a little bit, maybe what seemed like wasted time was, in fact, true happiness.

There's immeasurable glory in riding a tractor. You start by taking a lap around the fields, smelling the aroma, admiring the colors, day after day, until one morning everything smells ready, as if it's opened and unfurled, and you ask the wheat, 'Is it time?' And the wheat says, 'Yes, friend, it's time.' And then you know to begin the harvest.

A story is time itself, boxed and compressed.

Wouldn't it be better to take a little time to train him in his young and tender years? If nothing else, training will result in saving you time.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

A whole genre of rock, called math rock, is based on using complex time signatures, such as 7/8, 11/8, 13/8, and so on, in order to break away from the 4/4 time that's the standard in rock.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

you don't stop laughing when you grown old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold. (Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)

His awe of the mountains grew in the days that followed, as the Yellowstone River led him nearer and nearer. Their great mass was a marker, a benchmark fixed against time itself. Others might feel disquiet at the notion of something so much larger than themselves. But for Glass, there was a sense of sacrament that flowed from the mountains like a font, an immortality that made his quotidian pains seem inconsequential

Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

I do my own habitual scan. I've already completed mental check-offs of the drunks, the painfully pierced, and there have been two iced coffees and a couple sharing a starfruit. Miriam is back in her spot. I go over and ask her, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you?

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

The worst hour of your life is only sixty minutes long