Quotes About Time

Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.

On the pediment of the town hall, Death turns his sunglasses to mark the hours. No one takes any notice. it is eternal, this present. The world will gain little by continuing to evolve. This civilisation has reached its peak. A few details may need to be sorted out. some drugs could do with refining.

Hence, when we are told that Christ appeared in the fulness of time, the fact of which we are mainly assured is, that all was done which was properly required for bringing the Church, whether as to her internal state or to her relations to the world, into a measure of preparedness for the time of His appearing.

If God has given all things their significance, and defined their bounds according to time, space, power, and number, and if He has appointed certain measurements to regulate things and times, biblical numbers must be symbolical, and be worthy of our study; and if a fit subject for study, the laws by which this symbolism of numbers is controlled, require to be ascertained.

A person is neither whole nor healthy without the memories of photo albums. They are the storybook of our lives. They provide a nostalgic escape from the tormented days of the present.

Our souls do not change in time; they reveal more and different and opposite views of themselves, just as the prima materia does in the course of its transmutation into the Stone.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.

If and When were planted, and Nothing grew." —Proverb

David Eagleman once wrote that everyone dies twice – first when we stop breathing, and second when your name is mentioned for the last time.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." - Victor Kiam

The term "procrastination" was derived from the Latin pro, meaning "forward, forth, or in favor of," and crastinus, meaning "of tomorrow." Its literal translation can thus be taken to be the moving forward of something to tomorrow, or favoring tomorrow as the ideal time.

Tu as encore quelque chose à me dire ? lui demande-t-elle d'une voix neutre. Non, reconnaît-il, avec l'impression d'entendre ce petit déclic qui signale que le présent vient de se changer en passé.

Live, don't know how long, And die, don't know when; Must go, don't know where; I am astonished I am so cheerful.

His eyes begged: 'Could you love me?' Well, I could – but I had a lot of things on hand and it really would have to wait.

Life, he told himself, is a palimpsest of expunged experiences.

For me the autumn has never been a sad season. The dead leaves and the increasingly shorter days have never suggested the end of anything, but rather an expectation of the future. In paris, there is an electricity in the air in october evenings at nightfall. Even when it is raining. i do not feel low at that hour of the day, nor do i have the sense of time flying by. i have the impression that everything is possible. the year begins in the month of october.

You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.

Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.

Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain.

After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.