Quotes About Time

Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.

But that's one of the good things about getting older: often the most terrible of things turn into the most amusing through the lens of time.

If I can give you one bit of advice, it's never to make your own fries. Buy frozen. Life is too short to be peeling potatoes.

Word by word, page by page,' Cricket tells her cheerfully, 'that's how a writer writes and how a reader should read. You'll get there in the end. Doesn't matter if it takes six months or a year or longer to finish it. That's what I always used to tell my husband.

What I want to know is, when did busy become better? When did a jam-packed diary become a measure of success?

You know, it never looks like you want it to, your hair's never perfect and it'll probably rain, but it doesn't matter. Those are your good old days. It's those times you always remember

I can't help feeling as if there's something missing in my life. But I don't know what it is. And the harder I look, the more I can't find it because there's just too much pressure and not enough time.

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is this minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

Our lives are made up of time, and the quality of our existence depends on our wise use of the moments we are given.

Life is too short for you to be the caretaker of the wrong details.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

A tissue is evidently an enduring thing. It's functional and structural conditions become modified from moment to moment. Time is really the fourth dimension of living organisms. It enters as part into the constitution of a tissue. Cell colonies, or organs, are events which progressively unfold themselves. They must be studied like history.

El tiempo físico nos es extraño, mientras el tiempo interior es nosotros mismos.

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.

Creatures of clay, vain dwellers in the dust, lonely, we roam like the cloud, the wind, the wave, and all we see is a shadow of things unseen, and time that comes to flee Is but the broken echo of a rhyme In heart's great epic of Eternity.

Time is the architect of fate, fleeting omen, pure phantom in enchanting light of absence, and our life the play of love and death, only love will never die, because In love no longer 'thou' and 'I' exist, only the blossom of sacred unity.

We have no time, we have no space, we are questions that love answers, but the veil of truth don't lift. In the edge of abyss, people really meet themselves, when they're staring at nothingness, and then they understand that we are, birds of passage.

Parents become more controlling when time is short, just as they do when they're in public. The combination of the two conditions is a killer.

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around," said the poet Adrienne Rich.

As a rule, the point of homework generally isn't to learn, much less to derive real pleasure from learning. It's something to be finished. And until it is, it looms large in conversations, an unwelcome guest at the table every night.