Quotes About Time

Meintjes seems to be concerned not only with the moment of reality, but the preparation before it, and the length of time that lies beyond it… It is the resulting quality of timelessness that is so strangely moving

As time passes in Heaven, the stars do not change places, not till the day when Zig changes the complete backdrop. I tell my students this is a metaphor for life; we go along thinking nothing will be different, till the day everything suddenly changes at once.

It takes time to establish trust in something or someone because it requires consistent and continuous behavior demonstrated over time. That is why our relationships are so fragile. It may take months or years to establish a high level of trust, but one act of unfaithfulness can destroy it. We can choose to forgive those who betray us, but it would take a long time to regain the trust that was lost.

experience was not yet my friend

The past is always judged by the present.

It seemed incredible that it could be the same road, the same asphalt, that they had traveled so many times together. You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

We now know that our universe is almost certainly 13.77 billion years old, and that it expanded more than a trillion trillion times in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second of its life.

Calm yourself. Calm yourself . . . " In time I do, and I move forward.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.

Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one's grip and even one's sanity.

Niente come tornare in un luogo rimasto immutato ci fa scoprire quanto siamo cambiati...

I was visited by my mother in spring 1968. I had not seen her since the end of the Rivonia Trial. Change is gradual and incremental, and when one lives in the midst of one's family, one rarely notices differences in them. But when one doesn't see one's family for many years at a time, the transformation can be striking. My mother suddenly seemed very old.

Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on.

What struck me so forcefully was how small the planet had become during my decades in prison;

It had been twenty-one years since I had even touched my wife's hand.

In my opinion—which is as good as yours and anybody else's—truth depends on the point of view, on the subjective reality of the observer, and on certain conditions, such as time, place, and the will to be done.