Quotes About Time

Life is made of these moments - of one's physical being moving through time and space - and we string them together into a story, and that story becomes our life.

Life can paralyze us, freeze us into statues if we think about things too long.

Today was Friday, August 21.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

In the world of old memories, there's no room for visitors

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors

would come along at least once

Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.

There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.

Know how to live with the time that is given you.

Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....

Time, thus unbroken by things to look forward to or back on, stretched endlessly.

Adeline, who is the girl that she once was, the bright Victorian girl shut behind dark paneled doors with her thirteen, fifteen, eighteen years of life and a Greek lexicon. She is the girl stopped in time who could not speak or feel at the side of her dead mother's bed. She keeps the cold, clear information of those days, unclouded by revision or the lies of age.

It is difficult for the average person to achieve an historical perspective in which progress shall have been reduced to its proper dimensions.

Learning, like more primitive forms of feedback, is a process which reads differently forward and backward in time. The whole conception of the apparently purposive organism, whether it is mechanical, biological, or social, is that of an arrow with a particular direction in the stream of time rather than that of a line segment facing both ways which we may regard as going in either direction.

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.

When I first heard about statistics in 1951, I firmly believed it to be the best technique around, and it took me 26 years to be completely free of its spell.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.