Quotes About Time

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

A fuck from Fred usually lasted less than a minute.

Thirty days hath November,April, June, and September,February hath twenty-eight alone,And all the rest have thirty-one.

It is time to stop making excuses. We need an enriched approach to doing economic research, one that acknowledges the existence and relevance of Humans.

quasi-hyperbolic discounting.

the planning fallacy—the systematic tendency toward unrealistic optimism about the time it takes to complete projects.

Humans have limited time and brainpower. As a result, they use simple rules of thumb—heuristics—to help them make judgments.

Self-control issues are most likely to arise when choices and their consequences are separated in time.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

Thrice happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing! So much time is saved in the billing and cooing -- The ring is now bought, the white favours, and gloves, And all the et cetera which crown people's loves.

I belong to the blank generationI can take it or leave it each time

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

The Easter holydays are kept up on shore during three days; and being a Catholic vessel, the crew had advantage of them. For two successive days, while perched up in the rigging, covered with tar and engaged in our disagreeable work, we saw these fellows going ashore in the morning, and coming off again at night, in high spirits. So much for being Protestants. There's no danger of Catholicism's spreading in New England; Yankees can't afford the time to be Catholics.

'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Oxford has been called many names, from 'the city of beautiful nonsense' to 'an organized waste of time

Get action, do things; be sane," he once raved, "don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.

A life takes as long as it takes to bring us to our truth, even if we only make it to our death bed.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! …5

The past does not exist. The future does not exist. One should concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Good friends, beware! the only life we know Flies from us like an arrow from the bow, The caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.

What long-dead face makes here the grass so green? On what earth-buried bosom do we lean? Ah! love, when we in turn are grass and flowers, By what kind eyes to come shall we be seen?

my father often stopped to breathe in, for he had told me time and time again that trouble will not stop in a man whose lungs are filled with fresh air.

It is strange that the mind will forget so much, and yet hold a picture of flowers that have been dead for thirty years or more...