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Quotes About Time

Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandfather!' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree?' And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss?
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The Purpose gives the array of these actions coherence, not just at any given moment, but over time, and thus helps ensure that the firm does achieve a genuine specialization, a genuine difference from its competitors. In this way it makes superior profits possible. Purpose
~ Unknown
The best photo you keep as your pride will one day be the carrier of RIP when you're gone.
~ Unknown
Use the time you voted for smoking to read. Changes will be on the walls of this world.
~ Unknown
The offender must be able to give something back. But criminals are most often poor people. They have nothing to give. The answers to this are many. It is correct that our prisons are by and large filled with poor people. We let the poor pay with the only commodity that is close to being equally distributed in society: time.
~ Unknown
She understood the meaning of the "Dark Ages" now. Because with all the drinking to celebrate rescues of fair maidens and slayings of dragons, vampires, and other scary whatevers, the local folk must've spent most of their time facedown on the great hall floor.
~ Unknown
There is no happiness that lasts overlong. There are only moments of intense pleasure that make all that comes between bearable.
~ Unknown
Una persona joven no puede conocer su vida, lo que será o cómo se desarrollará. Al crecer, adquieres la sensación de que las dificultades se limitan a momentos concretos en el tiempo, de que pasarán. Sin embargo, cuando eres joven, un único instante parece el mundo entero. Lo sientes permanente. Años después, pasaría a vivir una vida mejor. Viajaría por el mundo. Pero aquel invierno era apenas una niña.
~ Unknown
A young person can't know her life, what it will be or how it will unfold. When you grow older, you gain a sense that hardships occupy particular moments in time, which by and by will pass. But when you're young, a single moment seems like the whole world. It feels permanent.
~ Unknown
When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you'll never get used to the 10 second heartbreak." That's the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…
~ Nina Guilbeau
There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.
~ Unknown
We performed in front of the camera with unabashed joy, as if we lived only for that moment. And in fact we had, for our work did not stand the test of time. Our images -- quite literally -- crumbled.
~ Unknown
Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
One of my favorite things to tell people when I'm coaching them, is every great executive I've ever known has almost unlimited free time. The most incredible thing someone can learn is how to build that time. If a meeting can be done in five minutes there is no reason to take 15 minutes. I have learned through experience how to prioritize tasks and analyze what needs to be addressed first.
~ Unknown
I'll see you again,Whenever spring breaks through again.
~ Noel Coward
Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.
~ Noel Coward
It'll never get well if you pick it.
~ Noel Coward
To rise at six, dine at ten, Sup at five, to bed at ten, Makes man live ten times ten.
~ Noah Gordon
We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough
~ Noah Hawley
Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave?
~ Noah Hawley
Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.
~ Noah Hawley