Quotes About Time

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Piaget's work shows that our concepts of logic, space, time, number, quantity, etc., are not given readymade as Kant thought, but undergo a process of development.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé

Can a door protect a world that has lived too long?

Indeed, men who manage to defeat time by anxiously safeguarding their tomorrow, by not allowing it to stray anywhere from the past, have in effect conquered death itself.

Life shouldn't be easy to lose. It's everything we have. The only thing we have, really--then gone so fast.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

What the hell time is it?" muttered the old man. He was always an aggressive sleeper. Sleep was one of the things he did best, and he loved it. Some look upon sleep as an unfortunate necessary interruption of life; but there are others who hold that sleep is life, or at least one of the more fulfilling aspects of it, like eating or sex. Any time my old man's sleep was interrupted, he became truly dangerous.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It's a certainty.

Nada es tan poderoso como una idea cuyo momento ha llegado. VÍCTOR HUGO

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

A vendetta till the end of time?

Mum used to say one shouldn't wish one's life away, but she could never have imagined anything like this.

To reveal someone's beauty is to reveal their value by giving them time, attention, and tenderness. To love is not just to do something for them but to reveal to them their own uniqueness, to tell them that they are special and worthy of attention.

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

The awful thing about a vacation is that the moment it begins your happiness is already clouded by its approaching end.

You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, I meant to write to you before and thank you for your Christmas cheque, but life in the McBride household is very absorbing, and I don't seem able to find two consecutive minutes to spend at a desk. I

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Karim s'adossa au mur, pris d'un vertige. Puis il scruta sa montre. Il avait bien tué deux heures. Mais ces heures l'avaient tué en retour.