Quotes about time

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“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”

“Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.”

“In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.”

“Any time not spent on love is wasted.”

“i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.”

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

“Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.”

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

“As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.”

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”

“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”

“If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.”

“That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.”

“Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.”

“Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge”

“Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.”

“I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant, I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.”

“We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'

Precisely,' said a passing bush.”

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

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

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”

“Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.”

“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her”

“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.”

“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court.”

“Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.”

“Very often we write down a sentencethen anotherwhat we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”

“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched…
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck…

And you'll say to me : "Find it!" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot…”

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”

“You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.”

“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”

“Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.”

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right….”

“Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he’s worth my time.”
Kvothe: “That was nothing. Once I jumped off a roof.”

“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”

“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”

“Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.”

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”

“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”

“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!”

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”

“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.”

“There is no time for grief; there never is.”

“Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.”

“Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.”

“Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.”

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”

“One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.”

“Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.”

“We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.”

“Fear is how you lose your life… a little bit at a time… What we give to fear, we take away from… faith.”

“The song I came to sing
remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing
and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true,
the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony
of wishing in my heart…”

“So here is my story, may it bring
Some smiles and a tear or so,
It happened once upon a time,
Far away, and long ago,
Outside the night wind keens and wails,
Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!”

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”

“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”

“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.”

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”

“I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind…”

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.”

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

“Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind”

“He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”

“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world…”

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”

“This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”

“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”

“I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.”

“Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.”

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”

“I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.”

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us— to bore ourselves?”

“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”

“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".”

“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”

“Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.”

“and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.”

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.”

“I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.”

“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”

“In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”