Quotes on Time

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.