Quotes About Time

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

Sometimes we see problems in our church. Such occasions are not opportunities to criticize or to leave, but to let Christ use our lives to be a part of His solution. If you are presently in a church that is suffering difficulties, could it be that Christ added you to your congregation for such a time as this?

For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Live for the present –' I heard my parents' old maxim in the back of my head '– and the future will look after itself.

It's easy. Make every second count.

I would have loved to have spoken to these fishermen. Probably they were as stressed about their money and families as anyone else, but their life seemed so tranquil and rooted in such an ancient tradition that I felt they must have come to terms with time in a way I never had.

Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units, and don't waste even a minute.

Como decía mi padre: "lo importante no es el tiempo que uno pasa en algo, sino lo que pasa durante ese tiempo". Cuando bajan los niveles de compromiso no solo se afecta la productividad sino que el servicio al cliente también decae. Lo único que aumenta es el ausentismo y, por razones similares, la rotación de personal.

El matemático francés Blaise Pascal describió muy bien este problema en su célebre frase: "Lamento haber escrito esta carta tan larga, pero no tenía tiempo para hacerla más corta".

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

SIR OLIVER. Aye — I know — there are a set of malicious prating prudent Gossips both male and Female, who murder characters to kill time, and will rob a young Fellow of his good name before He has years to know the value of it.

Mrs. Bri. Psha! there is nothing in it: a moment, and it is over. Just. Ay, but it leaves a numbness behind that lasts a plaguy long time.

numbers. According to a 2007 survey conducted by AOL and the family magazine Cookie, 94 percent of parents say their children are spoiled, up from the 80 percent measured by a 1991 Time and CNN poll. This percentage may sound high, but to me the question is, Who are these other

Indulgence is a long-term process full of thousands of moments.

For most parents, the true thank-yous come much later.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [...] they wish they had spent more time with the people and activities they truly loved and less time worrying about aspects of life that, upon deeper examination, really don't matter at all that much. Imagining yourself at your own funeral allows you to look back at your life while you still have the chance to make some important changes.

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

Do you mind cigar smoke," he mumbled. "Not at all," she murmured. He turned away from her but made no move to find a cigar. "Go ahead," she said. "As a matter of fact, I wish you'd smoke two cigars at the same time." "You must really like cigar smoke." "Not especially, but I think two cigars going at the same time would look awfully amusing.

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.