Quotes About Time

time today is worth more than money tomorrow.

This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time.

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.

what Sigmund Freud said about cats? He said, 'Time spent with cats is never wasted.

But Jordan's violin was especially deadly. It screeched like a frightened owl. Mr. Graisha glared at her, snapping his baton up and down, side to side, fighting to keep all twenty-three students playing in unison. It was a losing battle. He glanced up at the clock and then waved both arms as if he needed to stop a freight train.

Like I said before, I'm ten now, so I've had some time to figure out some stuff.

The whole book stays put, right there all the time, always the same, with the words perfectly lined up one after another, waiting.

Like the sunrise, some things just have to happen — and all you can really do is watch.

It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations ' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.

What do I do next?' 'Maybe it's your time to wait too.' She dug the heels of her boots firmly into the ground and set her shoulders more stiffly against the sea breeze. 'Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret

The cliché goes that at twenty a person has the face that God gave him, but at forty he has the face he has earned.

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

have spent much time there, in this grand empty space between memory and desire, creating this cracked empire of sentences in which I now live.

You're scared and I understand that. I know it's difficult because you want to imagine the ending but you can't even imagine the beginning. But everything will be ok. It just takes time.

TIP: In Japan, green tea is steeped for one to two minutes, while in China it is steeped for three to five minutes.

each second was a century

Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars

The paradox is that, while these rich states have become more strongly Democratic over time, rich voters have remained consistently more Republican than voters on the lower end of the income scale.

Earth writes its history with one hand and erases it with the other, and as we go further back in time, erasure gains the upper hand.

To be in a body is to hear the heartbeat of death at every moment.

The separation between any two events in the history of a particle shall be a maximum or minimum when measured along its world line.