Quotes About Time

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of the previous one. He fears that too much handling will make it crumble.

her unhandsome, but beautiful friend of so many years...

The uneventful day is a precious gift.

Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.

happened has happened, be will be

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse under your wheel.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment!

I'm so sorry,' Stone said. I don't know whether he was speaking to me, or Ghosh, or the universe. It wasn't enough, but it was about time.

Why did it take an illness for me to recognize the value of time with him? It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day! What matters is this moment!" Most of us can't go back and make restitution. We can't do a thing about our should haves and our could haves.

a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.

Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I've lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school.

A chasm separates that memory from this moment.

Child, the past is past, and furthermore it's different every time I remember it.

The minutes we spend watching the waves don't count against our life spans