Quotes About Time

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

afterward. The Saxons called the stern of a boat the aft and their word ward meant "in the direction of." Thus aftward meant "toward the rear of a ship," or "behind." Over the years, the word aftward changed in spelling to afterward and came to mean "behind in time," "later on," or "later.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on a great adventure of human life. It is negative to the idea that youth should go forward. It is for the coming generation to judge you, not for you to judge it. So it must happen, whether you will it or not.

Fair daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon.

You say to me-wards your affection's strong;Pray love me little, so you love me long.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Our life is short, and our days run, As fast away as does the sun

Made me wonder whether putting names to time made much of a difference anyway. What did it measure? Not how much life passes. Hell no. Your whole life can pass and be changed in a second or in a century. Don't matter.

Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices are what make each moment.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

Youth is a disease that must be borne with patiently! Time, indeed, will cure it.

It will be time, then, to suffer by and bye, when the Prince of this world cometh upon the Prince of Heaven.

Keep an eye to the future, and ear to the past, and after thinking it over notice nothing much lasts.

Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there

Got to get down to the Cumberland mine That's where I mainly spend my time

We don't think enough about the steps required to achieve those ends, and when we do we underestimate how much time and effort they will take. But thinking only about looming deadlines and short-term goals is a mixed bag as well. We focus on what is feasible, on the steps to take right now, but we forget or downplay long-term goals. So we direct our efforts toward achievable milestones even when they undermine our ability to reach our ultimate destination.

el tiempo se inventó para no tener que hacerlo todo a la vez».

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

contrast with, say, Whig historians, such as Macaulay in nineteenth-century England, is striking. The Arab historians had no belief in the progress of humanity. Instead they waited for God to declare the End of Time.

Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.