Quotes about time
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Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
“I try to be a careful person. Most of the time my carelessness is completely unintentional.”
Source: Every You, Every Me
Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan
Quote in 'Some Data on the Youth of M. E., As Told by Himself' in the w:View (April 1942); also cited in Max Ernst and Alchemy (2001) by M. E. Warlick, p. 17
Max Ernst refers to his serving-period on the Western and then on the Eastern front during World War 1 (1914-1918)
1936 - 1950
“Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”
Source: Beyond The Highland Mist
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams
“I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
Source: Sleeping with Strangers
“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d'un Crime (1877): "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas", the wording of this famous statement actually more closely resembles a passage from the relatively obscure Les Francs-Tireurs (1861) by Gustave Aimard, p. 68 https://books.google.com/books/about/Les_francs_tireurs.html?id=mKI4AQAAIAAJ:
Il y a quelque chose de plus puissant que la force brutale des baïonnettes: c'est l'idée dont le temps est venu et l'heure est sonnée.
There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come and hour struck.
Translated into English as The Freebooters : A Story of the Texan War (1861) https://archive.org/details/freebootersstory00aima, p. 57, Ward & Lock edition
Misattributed
Variant: More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
“Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more.”
Variant: Everyone gets the time they get together, and no more. Maybe we're not so different that way.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
Source: Water Bound
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”
Source: Love the One You're With
Source: Pearls of Lutra
“Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”
“But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.”
“I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.”
Source: The Solitary Summer
“Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?”
“Will I get nights of ecstasy?"
"And days. Ecstasy all the time.”
Source: Magic Breaks
“Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”
An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth a raven´s claws…
“From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.”
Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
“Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda)
Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)”
Source: Night Pleasures
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
Loose translation, commonly attributed to Gramsci by Slavoj Žižek, presumably formulation by Žižek (see below).
Presumably a translation from a loose French translation by Gustave Massiah; strict English with cognate terms and glosses:
Le vieux monde se meurt, le nouveau monde tarde à apparaître et dans ce clair-obscur surgissent les monstres
The old world is dying, the new world tardy (slow) to appear and in this chiaroscuro (light-dark) surge (emerge) monsters.
“ Mongo Beti, une conscience noire, africaine, universelle http://www.liberationafrique.org/imprimersans.php3?id_article=16&nom_site=Lib%C3%A9ration”, Gustave Massiah, CEDETIM, août 2002 ( archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061734/http://www.liberationafrique.org/imprimersans.php3?id_article=16&nom_site=Lib%C3%A9ration, 2016-03-04)
“Mongo Beti, a Black, African, Universal Conscience”, Gustave Massiah, CEDETIM, August 2002
Collected in: Remember Mongo Beti, Ambroise Kom, 2003, p. 149 https://books.google.com/books?id=6YgdAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Le+vieux+monde+se+meurt,+le+nouveau+monde+tarde+%C3%A0+appara%C3%AEtre+et+dans+ce+clair-obscur+surgissent+les+monstres%22.
Original, with literal English translation (see above):
La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Similar sentiments are widespread in revolutionary rhetoric; see: No, Žižek did not attribute a Goebbels quote to Gramsci http://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/07/03/no-zizek-did-not-attribute-a-goebbels-quote-to-gramsci/, Ross Wolfe, 2015-07-03
Misattributed
Source: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
"Water", p. 104
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
“But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.”
“Already crazy about you, Sage.”
Source: The Indigo Spell
Source: Boys "R" Us
“If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.”
Source: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Source: The Starlight Crystal
Letter to a Mr. Hazard (18 February 1791) published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1853), Vol. 2, edited by Henry Augustine Washington, p. 211
1790s
Context: I learn with great satisfaction that you are about committing to the press the valuable historical and State papers you have been so long collecting. Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices. The late war has done the work of centuries in this business. The last cannot be recovered, but let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
“I'll never fall in love again… it's like having two souls at the same time.”
Source: The General in His Labyrinth