Quotes About Time

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

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In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago, but I have no concentration: the time slips through my fingers like water.

It's possible, when you've been married for twenty-five or thirty years, when your children have grown up and moved away, to keep coming back across the tail ends of conversations you started in a different decade, and to realize that whole areas of existence have lain dormant all that time, like seeds in an envelope. There's nothing unusual about that.

I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

What business does memory have with time?

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. —Milan Kundera

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

In California, the first spring is in November. March only echoes.

We deceive ourselves into thinking life is long, but fire reminds us—it is a flickering. Life is a flickering—and then it is gone. So, we must make the most of it.

Being old is being useless, and having things be useless to you. Because: the world is what is still to come. It isn't what is or what was.

I asked him if he had bothered to have children. He said yes, he had children. I said why if this is the result. He said I beg your pardon. I said if it leads to this, where you're a skin bag full of putrescent failing organs, and time passes quickly, it passes so quickly, and he knew that, then why have kids.

Why had he done it? It had been an idea of the morning—morning ideas were always flawed. They never take into account the accretion of weariness and grief that the late day brings.

I smell the wet black dirt and remember days in the garden, when it would have been possible to stand and run to my wife or stand and run to my son. But I did not do so. I concerned myself with parsley or yams or pulling weeds. I had so much and all at once. There is too much light in those thoughts. Light everywhere. It obliterates me. I recoil.

It is in MEMORY that you see your past and your present in Sight.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

Time sure flies when you skip an hour.

When the Universe folds into a sigh, Withdrawing from all agony and grief, Time will cease its flowing, and with relief The cosmic Breath will freeze and Time will die. Evil souls that once were us arise To devour the corpse, like clouds of flies.

You cannot step twice in the same river--Heraclitus

Considering how long it's been since I said it, I would've assumed I'd be more rusty. Well, that and the fact that the last time I was talking to a horse.

Takt" is business jargon. Defined as "the desired time that it takes to make one unit of production output," it is used to regulate the pace of work.)