Quotes About Time

It's been a long time since I've seen you, Palmer. But you're just the same, only more so.

But finally the day began to realize that she was growing old. Then a sort of pensiveness fell over her which dimmed yet intensified it; sharp angles, glittering points, melted away into curves and enticing gleams. The white harbour put on soft grays and pinks; the far-away hills turned amethyst.

Geometri s?nav?n? geçsem de geçmesem de güneÅŸ doÄŸup batmaya devam edecek.

I'm glad I don't live in yesterday... that tomorrow is still a friend.

Sure and ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.

The beast was sitting on his haunches at the foot of the ladder, and it was quite evident he was not short on time. The gleam in his eye seemed to say: I've got you two unprincipled subscription hunters beautifully treed and it's treed you're going to stay. That is what I call satisfying.

Today, so long, so strange, so bitter; will soon be some forgotten yesterday.

Try now, try now, it isn't too late' ... Excitement, like hysteria, bubbled up in me from a hundred unsealed springs. If it isn't too late, I thought confusedly, neither it is too early: I haven't much time left to spoil. It was the last flicker of instinct of self-preservation which had failed me so signally at Brandham Hall.

The future was to be a laborious business.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost. There

There are only certain times in life when emergence is possible. The life strategy for children of immigrants, starting with nothing, is to use that time to build social, educational, and financial capital on which to ride out the rest of their lives. Dagou has blown it. He's now interested in salvaging his middle age by becoming a member of the petite bourgeoisie. But he doesn't have the capital to be a member of the petite bourgeoisie.

We want to travel back in time, but we can't, and so we want to go to a new place instead. Place is what we have instead of time. No. Not true. Money is what we have now, instead of place or time." He exhales. "Time is money. Place is money. Love, love is money. And power is money. You'll see.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

And then he thought, profoundly, how there was something grand about living in hope, but also something terribly unreal and incomplete about it, because when you were hoping, you were not doing or living or experiencing the Now

I see you're in a hurry to get someplace. It's a great mistake to hurry." "Why?" Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything the traveler said. "Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.

Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough

The smartest man alive can't learn much about a woman in two weeks.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.

I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.

Dish said no more, and Augustus decided not to tease him. Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity- they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour. Young Dish, skilled cowhand that he was, might not live to see the whores of Ogallala, and the tender feelings he harbored for Lorena might be the sweetest he would ever have.

Without realizing it, he had been wasting time—years and years of time, time that would never be his again. He had failed to take advantage of the diversity of opportunity that had been, all along, available to him.

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.