Quotes About Time

All things move in time as they move in a dream; Abrupt, symbolic, like mountains seen through a rift, They tower and vanish. from The Jacaranda by Douglas Stewart

Conservation," Pinchot famously wrote, "means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.

If we could live for a million years, then maybe it would be worthwhile to create some problems. But our life is short. Now you see, we are guests here on this planet, visitors who have come for a short time, so we need to use our days wisely, to make our world a little better for everyone.

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.

Einstein once quipped that time's only purpose was to make sure that everything didn't happen at once.

On what principle is it, that when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?" —Thomas Babington Macaulay, Review of Southey's Colloquies on Society

Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana." —Unknown (often attributed to Groucho Marx)

We can't react in any meaningful way in this amount of time. But what about computers? For a computer, a half-second is a huge amount of time. So say you programmed a computer to see an uptick in a stock's price, send this information back to itself a half-second earlier, and put in a buy order." "I'm

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. —Unknown "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." —Omar Khayyam

Time, like gravity, was a barrier thrown up by an unyielding universe. Mankind had always railed against both of these barriers, forever fantasizing about their eventual defeat.

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to kill, and a time to heal." —Partial excerpts from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, King James Bible "Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana." —Unknown (often attributed to Groucho Marx)

All objects moved through space-time at the exact same rate.

Who wouldn't want to go back in time and correct a mistake, right a wrong, change how things turned out? Who wouldn't want to have another chance to win the girl, or hit the home run? To kill Hitler, or invest in Apple or Facebook when they were just emerging? The

And while looks deteriorated with time, a great personality and great chemistry only strengthened

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present.

Partially true. But a large part of aging is due to a form of planned obsolescence.

Richard Feynman showed that anti-matter is identical, mathematically, to ordinary matter traveling backward in time. He

Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana.

If I would have had more time, I'd have written you a shorter letter.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

Additional manpower doesn't always speed things up," said Kelly. "Yes, perspiration is important. But it's also true that nine women can't have a baby in a month.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." —Omar Khayyam