Quotes About Time

Yes, there is no hope. But remember, some fuses are duds, some tumors are benign, some heart patients recover on their own. You have time to change your life.

He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it, unless it's too awful to renounce. And this isn't. Or is it? These gummy spots of time that inextricably adhere when so much more is erased, how do we account for their tenacity?

If we are alive for these times then we were made for them.

The past was so past it hurt.

God might choose his own time, but Reagan had a taste for coming to the rescue.

Don't leave five minutes before the miracle?

GANDALF: So do all that live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the ring, in which case you also were meant to have it, and that is an encouraging thought.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Leo drummed his fingers. Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time." Hazel frowned. What is a chicken nugget?" Oh, man…" Leo shook his head in amazement. That's right. You've missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—" Doesn't matter," Annabeth interrupted.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

You never know when you're making a memory Rickie Lee Jones, from "Young Blood," Ricki Lee Jones (1979)

Well, I think life is precious because you can't watch it again. I mean you can believe in an after life if that makes you feel better but once you realize you're not going to be around forever, I think that's what makes life so magical.

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Relax, man. If it's God you're talking about... he's been absent from the world of science since the very dawn of time.

A new beginning always leads to more memories.

All things pass, all things, that is, but mystery.

Over the years I had devised an elaborate syllabus of coping techniques for spending time with Nick.

My adolescent feasting on books was a protective search for privacy and self that worked for me at the time, and later became habitual and delivered other benefits. I

May said, 'Your granda's been

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

When I was young, I was older than I am today.