Quotes About Time

Dr. J. H. Jewett used to say, "The disciple of Christ is to be an expert merchant in the commodity of time.

Syndicated columnist Harvey Mackay said, "Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12

Use your calendar as a shield to encircle the most important things of life.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law. – Galatians 4:4–5

In Thine own good time, so order the things in our life that we may end in the calm, quiet peace of those whose hearts are stayed upon God. —George Dawson (1821

Biblical promises are tightly wrapped, power-packed, portable capsules of Scripture, written by God and designed to meet our specific needs at specific times and in ways that correspond perfectly to His all-sufficient grace.

Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. – John 9:4

Not now, but in the coming years, It may be in the better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears, And there, some time, we'll understand. We'll catch the broken thread again, And finish what we here began; Heav'n will the mysteries explain, And then, ah then, we'll understand. God knows the way, He holds the key, He guides us with unerring hand; Some time with tearless eyes we'll see; Yes, there, up there, we'll understand.

Cornerstone No. 3 is the Mortality Theory, which states: Given that your time on earth is limited, it makes good sense to aim high and move fast.

The reality from my vantage point was that 50 billion years from now, when the earth is nothing but an ice ball, my problems of today will be too insignificant to have been recorded. Indeed, there would undoubtedly not even be a record of the entire century in which I had lived most of my life.

That's because time brings into play the Fiddle Theory, which states: The longer you fiddle around with a deal, the greater the odds that it will never close.

The universe was the application, running now for 13.9 billion years, leading up to this moment

By your time, life had been evolving on Earth for four billion years. But there are Earth-descended life-forms in this time that are products of fourteen billion years of evolution. You'll never believe what daisies evolved into—or sea anemones, or the bacteria that caused whooping cough. In fact, I had lunch a few days ago with someone who evolved from whooping-cough bacteria.

To a European, a hundred miles is a big journey; to an American, a hundred years is a long time.

Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we'd have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would make short work of tyrannosaurs." She nodded at Schrödinger, who was now padding across the floor in the opposite direction. "Big cats, too. They're faster, tougher, and brighter than anything that existed seventy million years ago. Everything is always ramping up, always escalating.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Ecco perché sono su questo pianeta, in questo tempo, Francesca. Non per viaggiare o fare fotografie, ma per amarti. Adesso lo so. Per molti più anni di quanti non ne abbia vissuti, ho continuato a precipitare dall'orloo di un luogo immenso e altissimo. E in tutti questi anni precipitato verso di te

God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind.

Neke stvari traju, pomislila je. Hridi, rijeke, stari natkriveni mostovi. A neke stvari ne traju. Vrele kolovoške no?i i sve što sa sobom nose. Izmi?u nam, pa idemo dalje bez njih, naposljetku umremo i nema nam traga.

Some things last, she thought. Rocks, rivers, old covered bridges. And some things don't last. Hot August nights and everything they bring with them. They elude us, so we go on without them, eventually we die and there is no sign of us.

no soy más que un hombre. Y todas las elucubraciones filosóficas que puedo conjurar no me salvan de desearte, todos los días, a cada momento ni el despiadado gemido del tiempo, el tiempo que nunca puedo pasar contigo, dentro de mi cabeza. Te amo profundamente, totalmente. Y será siempre así.

This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.