Quotes About Time

But such gossip cannot be confronted. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.

back across the sand, passing the white concrete

seconds he was forty, fifty yards

There was always a faint possibility that a supplier might actually arrive on time but it would never be with the goods that we had actually ordered.

Books grow old faster when they're not being read

Well, you know, it's been one of those years." It always was, where Michael was concerned. He'd turned gloom into an art form.

That was a long time, an abyss into which Cecily had fallen.

The past learns from the future, the future learns from the past. I already told you, we are the same five.

It's like that poem Larkin wrote. "I have started to say 'A quarter of a century'/ Or 'thirty years back' /About my own life/It makes me breathless…

Well . . . I can come back in twenty years, if you like.

You're never too young to die.

By adding support for eldercare, spousal care, and children beyond the birth stage, Deloitte's family leave program provides our people with the time they need to focus on their families in important times of need.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside.

Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.

Psychology is not a place where you get results overnight.

Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the role.