Quotes About Time

What, if anything, might have made a difference, or if it was always going to happen like this. In this universe. On this day.

But when you can't escape the seconds, when you are sure you are going to die before you can get free, some things don't mean very much anymore.

You tell yourself this is no less or more real than bowling at Chipper's.[...] That this moment is the same as every other moment, that it makes no difference to the atoms, to the air, to the creature whose walls breathe all around you.

The fall took forever. The fall took no time at all.

Control blinked once, twice, three times.

some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.

I am walking forever on the path from the border to base camp. It is taking a long time, and I know it will take even longer to get back. There is no one with me. I am all by myself. The trees are not trees the birds are not birds and I am not me but just something that has been walking for a very long time…

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. —LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

To work effectively with challenging students, teachers must spend a lot of time in lesson planning. Hidden in every typical set of class activities are trapdoors and land mines that can cause challenging students to disappear or explode.

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

Made profoundly aware of his mortality, Keynes decided in 1937 to set up a permanent fund that would provide Duncan Grant, now fifty-two, with a regular annual income. Although it had been twenty-five years since Grant and Keynes had been lovers or lived together, their importance to each other had endured.

Hanging out with you is like an extra job.

we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

Jeffrey Lent

One good idea could cost you thousands of your days, but it's just time you'd be spending anyways

The biggest challenge you will face as you start using the Four Steps is in believing that you are worth the time and effort required to challenge the deceptive brain messages and not give in to their commands.