Quotes About Time

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.

Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world.

I exist only in the past.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Well it's interesting because we use the word brand in a very derogatory way a lot of the time. I do it as much as anyone. But i think a brand is also sort of like momentum; it gets you through the bad patches if you've got a good brand.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

I've always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

It costs to win, you need patience.