Quotes About Time

Time has reversed many of the old verdicts of history which once we thought fixed, our whole theory of natural science has been changed--all that seems to us now of little use. But the lessons of justice or of injustice which we saw every day, the image of the beautiful sternness of truth or the cringing and wavering falsehood which filled the atmosphere of the old school rooms--those we remember still.

History in the making is a very uncertain thing.

We have a week, Miss Forsythe. Time's winged chariot and all that.

It gradually dawned on him that he needed time and an ocean of love to heal the wounds of the past.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on. Use your time to bathe yourself in that gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession… What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

Vivimos atrapados entre el pasado agitado y examinado, y un futuro que espera nuestro trabajo

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their offices would be a museum. A museum!

Il problema della vita è che puoi procedere solo alla cieca, in un'unica direzione. La memoria ha delle idee tutte sue; carpisce elementi da ogni quando e cerca di metterli insieme. Ti sorprende da tutte le angolazioni, con tutto quello che sei venuto a sapere in seguito, e ti comunica le novità.

Au bout de combien de temps oublie-t-on l'odeur de celui qui vous a aimée? Et quand cesse-t-on d'aimer à son tour? Qu'on me tende un sablier.

Wie lange dauert es, bis man den Geruch desjenigen Vergißt, der einen geliebt hat? Und wann hört man selbst auf zu lieben?

Cik ilgam laikam j?paiet, l?dz aizmirstam t? cilv?ka smaržu, kurš m?s m?l?jis? Un kad paši p?rst?jam m?l?t?

Bon. Il ne te reste plus que cinq minutes pour arriver à prononcer une phrase de sept mots, c'est faisable, non? Allez, badinait-il pour de faux, si c'est trop, sept, trois me suffiraient...Mais les bons, hein? Merde! J'ai pas composté mon billet...Alors?

Pour le moment, elle entendait encore le son de sa voix, mais... Jusqu'à quand?

and it can't wait.

We create eternity out of crumbs of time.

The past had vanished and become nothing; the future was the inconceivable nothingness of annihilation. All that was left was the ceaselessly shrinking fragment of time called 'now'.

The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun or hear the songs of larks like crystal fountains playing against the sky. No hand enfolded mine in the warm clasp of love. My thoughts were again solitary, disintegrate, disharmonious – the music gone. I lived alone in a few pleasant rooms, feeling my life run out aimlessly with the tedious hours: the life of an old maid ran out of my fingertips.

He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can't be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which "you" you happen to be at a given time...

A thousand pleasant arts we'll have To add new feathers to the wings of Time, And make him smoothly haste away: We'll use him as our slave, And when we please we'll bid him stay, And clip his wings, and make him stop to view Our studies, and our follies too.

Let me here, Content and grateful, wait the appointed time, And ripen for the skies: the hour will come When all these splendours bursting on my sight Shall stand unveiled, and to my ravished sense Unlock the glories of the world unknown.

Lot's of things in life aren't right, but most things get better with time.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!