Quotes About Time

Miss Clare had already arrived when I walked over at a quarter to nine. Her bicycle, as upright and as ancient as its owner, was propped just inside the lobby door.

The worst of getting old,' said Winnie, 'is the time one has to spend in patching oneself up.

In this brief pause between activities, she suddenly became conscious of living completely in the present. It came but rarely. One was either looking back anxiously wondering which duties had been left undone, or forward to those duties which lay before one.

No matter how long their partings, on meeting they fell together as sweetly as two halves of an apple. Now in old age, the warm friendship had an added quality, for the knowledge that it must end before long quickened their love for each other.

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

Every tomorrow will soon be a yesterday

However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: 'Thou shan't go on holiday in summer!

At two o'clock in the afternoon it was time to go. As the passengers lined up outside the Gremlin Special, Prossen told them to expect the tour to last three hours.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

Even now, years later, that day stood out in his memory like a shining piece of colored glass in a sea of mud.

as time passes, the spontaneity and interest fades and it gets rougher. you become unable to forgive things you used to forgive. only your demands will increase. if you know the person won't answer to them, you start to look for something else. after all, no matter how close you were, you're the same as everyone else. if your expectations are too high, you are the one who's going to get hurt.

It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting

It's the middle of the day in China!

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don't bloom forever

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero,

Creí que lo habrías olvidado. -Imposible-dije-. De los cincuenta en adelante, uno no tiene memoria para las cosas recientes, pero las del pasado las recuerda cada vez mejor. -A mí también me pasa-dijo ella-. Hasta sueño con las cosas de entonces.

We're already too late, so there's no need to go any faster.

Le cose del mondo sono come i libri, che vanno sfogliati una pagina per volta. Gli uomini devono guardare avanti ed evitare di rivangare vecchie questioni; i cani devono avanzare con i tempi e fronteggiare la realtà.

Every year, you lose a bit of potential.

If this planet lasts for another thousand years people will still be talking about the terrible event we are now living through.