Quotes About Time

the use of time: the experiential equivalent of money.

Sus pretensiones, pues, son infundadas, porque el esfuerzo realizado no nos hace más competentes, sino menos; la ejecución, en términos generales, será deficiente, propensa al error y requerirá más tiempo del que hubieran exigido las tareas por separado.

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world… we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.

There were no tears in her. The wound went too deep, or she was not so constituted to give way to it. Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.

But let me tell you this: sometimes at night, when I look up at the stars, an see the whole sky jus laid out there, don't you think I ain't rememberin it all. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been. An then, all of a sudden, I'm forty, fifty, sixty years ole, you know?

After seventeen days of flying school he could now call himself a pilot. After putting in twenty-five hours of flying time, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. W

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.

We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences.

Time has passed like a courier with urgent news.But that's just our simile.The character's invented, his haste is make-believe,his news inhuman.

The Three Oddest Words When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word nothing, I make something no nonbeing can hold.

To pass the time of our sojourning in fear means to walk in a holy fear of God all the time. The words "pass the time" include every minute of our daily life.

However, if we are not faithful to take time to absorb the Lord, our condition will gradually deteriorate.

Sometimes we waste too much time to think about someone who doesn't even think about us for a second.

Wieder ist ein Jahr vergangen: allmählich wird mir dieser ewigwährende Zyklus ein wenig leid, wozu verschiedene Faktoren, deren Urheber ich in diesem Zusammenhang, um mich keinen Unannehmlichkeiten, deren Folgen, die in Kauf zu nehmen ich, der ich gerne Frieden halte, gezwungen wäre, nicht absehbar wären, auszusetzen, nicht nennen möchte, beitragen.

Ich finde es einen wunderschönen Gedanken, dass etwas, das ein Mensch vor über hundert Jahren niedergeschrieben hat, noch immer da ist. Der Mensch selbst ist schon lange verschwunden, und vielleicht sogar schon vergessen, aber seine Gedanken sind immer noch da. Bücher sind Boten aus der Vergangenheit, weißt du? Botschaften aus der Vergangenheit für die Menschen der Zukunft. Wie kleine Zeitmaschinen.

Wenn er irgendwann einmal ein Buch der verpassten Chancen schreiben würde, dann würden die letzten beiden Tage darin einen besonderen Platz einnehmen. Gleich hinter dem Kapitel Gesammelte Dummheiten.

Bare empty space is a relative new conception — one that would be alien, unfamiliar, and incomprehensible to people of primal and ancient cultures. If we think of these earlier views of space and time as naive, misinformed, and anthropomorphic, we must at least recognize the sense of home, security, and support the earlier conceptions of space gave to those who believed and dwelt in them. We have given up this nourishing quality of space — of our abode — at our peril.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.