Quotes About Time

He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always i a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach, to grasp, and to enjoy it.

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always in a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach, to grasp, and to enjoy it.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

Whatever one does, it is impossible to raise the intelligence of a nation above a certain level. It will be quite useless to ease the access to human knowledge, improve teaching methods, or reduce the cost of education, for men will never become educated nor develop their intelligence without devoting time to the matter... Thus it is as difficult to imagine a society where all men are enlightened as a state where all the citizens are wealthy.

Man springs out of nothing, crosses time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God; he is seen but for a moment, staggering on the verge of the two abysses, and there he is lost.

Are ruins, then, already here?

One epoch's popular culture is another's esoterica.

Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you.

Through the vistas of the years every age but our own seems glamorous and golden. We yearn for the yesterdays and tomorrows, never realizing that we are faced with Hobson's Choice … that today, bitter or sweet, anxious or calm, is the only day for us. The dream of time is the traitor, and we are all accomplices to the betrayal of ourselves.

How is it brought to critical mass. Presteign? How is the energy released?' 'As the original energy was generated, in the beginning of time,' Presteign droned. 'Through Will and Idea.

You can't go back and you can't catch up. Happy endings are always bittersweet.

À voir ce que l'on fut sur terre et ce qu'on laisse Seul le silence est grand; tout le reste est faiblesse.

La vie est trop courte pour que nous en perdions une part précieuse à nous contrefaire.

Christ is never in haste: least of all, on His errands of love. And He is never in haste, because He is always sure.

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.

That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.

These days, we are closer to the gnarled

Time dribbles through our fingers while we wait.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.