Quotes About Time

OK, we'll make it another time

You should never ask What do you do for a living? What is your job?". You simply practice the following eight words. How do you spend most of your time?

What ages you faster, suffering or experience?

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Life is a four-letter word.

Nothing lovable is eternal or sempiternal or deathless, or that the eternal is not lovable.

The cause of these uprisings was the desire to rule, rooted in acquisitiveness and the love of honor, but after a time the violence seemed to take on a life of its own.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years that we know nothing about. And after this civilization we are living in destroys itself, it will all start up again in a million years when the planet has all its messes cleaned up. Then, finally, one of these civilizations, say five billion years from now, will last because people treat each other the way they ought to.

They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee.

There is no present or future—only the past, happening over and over again—now." —EUGENE O'NEILL

first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again

That period had been the peak of his life, though he had not realized it then. It had gone by without time for reflection, ending while he was still thinking things were going to get better.

Well, I have been working on my own theory for twelve years," and then he proceeded to describe it in excruciating detail. When he was finished, Feynman turned to me and said, in front of the man who had just proudly described his work, "That's exactly what I mean about wasting your time.

In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to consider every possibility: assuming you spent one second considering each one, it would come to more than half a million years. The unhappy guest will assume, of course, that you are being histrionic.

a thousand years without a bath.

But if she is allowed to move at constant speed without pausing at Zeno's imaginary checkpoints—and why not?—then the time it takes to travel each of Zeno's intervals is proportional to the distance covered in that interval, and so since the total distance is finite, as is the total time—and fortunately for all of us—motion is possible after all.

In fact, the first clock to record hours of equal length wasn't invented until the 1330s. Before that, daylight, however long, had been divided into twelve equal intervals, which meant that an "hour" might be more than twice as long in June as in December (in London, for example, it varied from 38 to 82 of today's minutes).

Doing time creates a demented darkness of my own imagination.... Doing time does this thing to you. But, of course, you don't do time. You do without it. Or rather, time does you. Time is a cannibal that devours the flesh of your years day by day, bite by bite.

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays. —A.W. TOZER112