Time Quotes

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

You can never step in the same river twice.

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

You're already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you're trading your time for money. Frankly, it's just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can't get more time.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who be in jailIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.

What can be shown?What true love be?All could be known or shownIf Time were but gone.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,Pass'd over to the end they were created,Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.Ah, what a life were this!

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Geological time is not money.

The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow.

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I have to tell them something that is going on. "What time is it, Mitch?" "Uh, that guy is eating a hamburger." "Shi*, I had to be somewhere..."

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.