Quotes About Time

The goal is to understand how this period can be extended for as long as possible while simultaneously being mindful that it will eventually erode.

I realized that liking or not liking someone was irrelevant. It was the time in history that you shared. A time binds you to another person just as passions tie to you to the dead.

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

We must hurry!' said Mr. Wonka. 'We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!

Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue!" cried Mr. Wonka. "It's such a waste of precious time!

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

Never in a month of Mondays.

I is a dreamblowing giant," the BFG said. "(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.

mi querido muchacho, por favor, no discutas! –gritó el señor Wonka–. ¡Es una pérdida de tiempo precioso! Y bien

Grandpa Joe was the oldest of the four grandparents. He was ninety-six and a half, and that is just about as old as anybody can be.

18 Still Waiting

Now when something is growing very very slowly, it is almost impossible to notice it happening.

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We are always in the endless process of figuring out our ikigai. Your ikigai is a web of work and family and play and how you spend your time, what you give your energies to, what you say "yes" to, what you say "no" to, what new challenges you take on, things that come your way that you never wanted or planned for or know what to do with— your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress.

heaven is not forever in the way that we think of forever, as a uniform measurement of time, like days and years, marching endlessly into the future. That's not a category or concept we find in the Bible. This is why a lot of translators choose to translate aion as "eternal." By this they don't mean the literal passing of time; they mean transcending time, belonging to another realm altogether.

If a sermon can be resolved in the time it took to deliver it, then it missed something central to what a sermon even is, which is connected with what the Eucharist is.

The universe has been expanding for over thirteen billion years, and we never stop being invited to expand along with it.

We certainly strive for reality in terms of asking our audience to believe the motivations, reactions, and behavior of our characters, but do I know when Veronica has time to do her homework? Not really.

I would rather link my name indelibly with the living pulsing history of my country and not be forgotten entirely after a while than to have anything else on earth

Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.