Quotes About Time

At twenty-nine you can't waste your time reading.

I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about, all of them talking, a stack of books in one arm, a mass of student papers in the other, seven committee reports wedged in between, as well as her small daughter in a backpack, and she was looking surreptitiously at her watch. So I went on reading and taking notes.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Was definitely throwing out those fuckin' jeans of hers tommorrow. Doesn't matter how fuckable a woman looks in a pair of pants if you can't get them off when it is time to tap ass.

We'll date later … maybe next year. Until then, I'll be the guy fucking you. And the guy who bandages up your feet. You can cry on me, too, but I'm not gonna let you dump me until we've had a real chance. Sooner or later, you'll be ready to live again. I can wait.

I really shouldn't have skipped biker babe orientation, I mused. Next time I'd definitely attend. A little laugh sneaked out

It's a .38," he said proudly. "I know you're a .22 girl, but it's time for us to take the next step in our relationship.

It's a .38. I know you're a .22 girl, but it's time for us to take the next step in our relationship.

As a representative institution, the U.S. Congress embodies the temper of its time. When the nation is polarized and civic commonality dwindles, Congress reflects that image back to the American people.

IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

He sat in another season - spring time, maybe - beneath a separate sun whose rays ended at the periphery of her eyesight, her reality.

ghosts of the past still clutch at you in the present

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

A ti que aun no sabes los besos que te caben en la boca, a ti que has comprendido que a veces el olvido se equivoca.

El amor es una epidemia que se acaba con el tiempo.

Incluso en estos tiempos en los que soy feliz de otra manera, todos los días tienen ese instante en que me jugaría la primavera por tenerte delante.

Tanto la quería, que, tardé, en aprender a olvidarla, diecinueve días y quinientas noches.

A mis cuarenta y diez, cuarenta y nueve dicen que aparento.

El agua apaga el fuego y al ardor los años, amor se llama el juego en el que un par de ciegos juegan a hacerse daño. y cada vez peor y cada vez mas rotos y cada vez mas tu y cada vez mas yo sin rastro de nosotros.

Le di mis noches y mi pan, mi angustia, mi risa, a cambio de sus besos y su prisa; con ella descubrí que hay amores eternos que duran lo que dura un corto invierno.

En la posada del fracaso, donde no hay consuelo ni ascensor, el desamparo y la humedad comparten colchón y cuando, por la calle, pasa la vida, como un huracán, el hombre del traje gris saca un sucio calendario del bolsillo y grita ¿Quién me ha robado el mes de abril?

Machado de Assis is a kind of miracle, another demonstration of the autonomy of literary genius in regard to time and place, politics and religion.