Quotes About Time

in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a black sun on a hopeless morning.

I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.

a great future behind him, already

Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.

There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them.

Then I understood the thing I'd never grasped back in those days, when I was young, before I lived in history. When I was young, I'd wanted to be ephemeral, I'd wanted the moment, to live in just the glorious moment, the rush of blood, the applause. Pluck the day. Eat the peach. Tomorrow never comes. But, oh yes, tomorrow does come all right, and when it comes it lasts a bloody long time, I can tell you.

There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

appreciation is like an insurance policy. it has to be renewed every now and then.

If Adonai means for you to gain victory over the man who wronged you, He will arrange it . . . when the time is

In the Christian Bible, one turns the page after Malachi and finds Matthew as if only a few days fell between the activities of the prophet and the arrival of Jesus Christ. In reality, however, four hundred "silent years" lie between the Old Testament and New, a time when God did not speak to Israel through His prophets. Yet despite the prophets' silence

In the Christian Bible, one turns the page after Malachi and finds Matthew as if only a few days fell between the activities of the prophet and the arrival of Jesus Christ. In reality, however, four hundred so-called "silent years" lie between the Old Testament and New, a time when God did not speak to Israel through His prophets. Yet despite the prophets' silence, God continued to work in His people, other nations, and the supernatural realm.

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

Go to work and mess up a big project. Nothing big enough to get fired, of course. While your supervisor is lecturing you about responsibility, watch the clock and calculate how much she is paying you to listen to her.

I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells.

Time is a very rum thing, as Shakespeare knew--ambling, trotting, galloping and sometimes standing still; though why he had to add "withal" to these interesting facts we cannot explain. Perhaps he could not explain either, but wrote whatever came into his head.

Rose's baby can't be confirmed for the next fifteen years and anything might happen before then," from which words it was perfectly clear to her hearers that she had courageously envisaged the beautiful and comforting thought that the present Bishop of Barchester might be dead by that time.

Much as he loved his many daughters and his two sons, now all married, all with children, he sometimes, and especially at Christmas and during school holidays when his wife's exuberant grandmotherhood filled the Deanery with children and nurses and odd parents, echoed from his heart the cry, "Oh, for an hour of Herod.

One is a young untried creature and then one day looks back and sees that young creature very far behind one; so distant that one can barely believe that one has journeyed so far.

Como si nada hubiera ocurrido, como si aún viviéramos en los tiempos felices en los que creíamos que nadie podría nunca separarnos y nos imaginábamos en un futuro muy lejano, viejas y juntas, ella apoyó su cabeza sobre la mía

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

waiting for the spell to end, as all spells must.

It is a little known fact that it takes an arthritic wolfhound exactly the same time to walk from the Palace Gate to the Wizard Tower as it takes a cohort of jinn to run the Ice Tunnel from the Observatory to the Wizard Tower.