Quotes About Time

But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer term, of responsibilities and obligations, debts to be paid, promises to fulfil. I

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas.»

Both of our memories were deteriorating, and in recent years the effort required to recall a name or incident felt almost wearyingly physical, like clearing out an attic. Proper nouns were particularly elusive. Adverbs and adjectives would go next, until we were left with pronouns and imperative verbs. Eat! Walk! Sleep now!

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

But none of this is a surprise. I've been expecting to watch you grow older ever since we met. Why should it trouble me?

By this time it was well past midnight. You know how that is. It's a time when you start asking questions about things that in the light of day you wouldn't consider twice. It's a time … well, we both know how that goes, in the dark hour.

There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

The loss for all adults who remain loyal to ungiving parents is the loss of time. Living with the attitudes and identity of a child in an adult body is a guaranteed way of wasting time that could be used toward developing a more mature and satisfying way of life. The lost time is simply that—lost—and every passing year reduces the probability that the adult child who remains attached to failed parents will be able to emerge into adulthood.

Overall, I view the design of the Catholic Mass as something like a polished gem, refined over time to a state of great beauty—if you know what you are looking at,

Every day spent producing reports is a day less spent on analysis and projects." There

Above all, they cover two periods of time, one leading up to the first coming of the Messiah and one leading to the second. It's as if Daniel looked through a prophetic telescope and saw two 'peaks' of history, a lower in front of a higher, without realizing the length of the valley between them.

I pulled myself up on my elbows and lay on my belly staring down into hell. There below me in the basin of Hunslet Carr, just 500 yards beneath me, was my England on the morning of Sunday 15 December in the year of Our Lord 1974, looking a thousand years younger and none the better.

The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.

We all laughed and I remembered back when I thought I could live forever, back when I wanted to, back before I knew what a curse it really was.

Times change, faces change but the doubt remains, the fear remains-

I am forty years old, Joan thirty-eight. We have no children, we can't.

muscle cells take about fifteen years to completely renew themselves.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

That was how long ago?

metaphors themselves are time-bound and ideologically motivated.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. Description or law, it challenged the theory of special creation and bruited the idea of evolution in a tone of thunderous innuendo.

Moraleja: si eres una población próspera, que vive en altas concentraciones pero está expuesta a nuevas infecciones, es solo cuestión de tiempo hasta que llegue la próxima gran pandemia.

And here's the thing about outbreaks: They end. In some cases they end after many years, in other cases they end rather soon.