Quotes About Time

We push aside work that takes long—novels, poetry collections, biographies, articles, memoirs—to write e-mail messages that take little time while complaining we have no time to write.

It is only familiarity, [Bonnard] seems to say, that can elicit such a profound relationship to our living spaces, but only if we see these places as if for the first time.

The trick is to keep at it steadily.We'll see progress in time.""Didion believes the notebook's value lies in its record of "How it felt to be me"at a particular time.""Henry Miller believed reading was 'an act of creation' By reading slowly,carefully,and with complete attention,he believed,we respect the writer's work and enrich our lives.

Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.

A smile of remembrance of lost times.

As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned and the sun met her hair and for that one instant the symbol blazed out, those particular moments were eternal. Those moments actually went somewhere. Into a file of moments that existed out of time's range and could not be pilfered by God.

The present was enough, though my work in the cemetery told me every day what happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough: it becomes your entire history.

Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.

As animals subject to the laws of earth, we think time is experience. But time is more a substance, like air, only of course not air. It is in fact a holy element.

For what is a man, what are we all, but bits of time caught for a moment in a tangle of blood, bones, skin, and brain? She was time. Mauser was time. I am a sorry bit of time myself. We are time's containers. Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

Someone had cleared that hillside once to make an orchard that had fallen into ruin and was now only twisted silver branches and split trunks. I sat there and continued to watch the sky as, out of nowhere, great solid-looking clouds built hot stacks and cotton cones. I was sixteen years old.

You cannot feel time grind against you. Time is nothing but everything, not the seconds, minutes, hours, days, years. Yet this substanceless substance, this bending and shaping, this warping, this is the way we understand our world.

No, I am not," Grant shot back, "but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Pierpont was already urging him to cut back his schedule.

Rockefeller spent a ridiculous amount of time protesting bills both large and small and scrutinized the smallest bills from grocers and butchers.

He had to bide his time, though, because he first had to dispose of two legal challenges that dogged his footsteps throughout 1879.

True to this policy, Rockefeller tried to extricate himself from the intricate web of administrative details and dedicate more of his time to broad policy decisions.

spending months apart from his wife each year.

It was the only time in American history a sitting president came under fire in combat.

If she is right we will not gain anything by answering, and if she is wrong time will vindicate us.

As the years went by

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.

Summer school's a drag.