Time Quotes

He walked towards me. My heart was pounding like a nineties warehouse rave.

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn that""And if everyone dies, no one learns anything

There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.And then it was gone.

Perhaps people who don't value other people's time are actually reflecting a misunderstanding they have themselves

Every desire to modify in your life begins with the intention to do so.

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, full of unknowns, asking questions but raising possibilities.

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable

Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important

The known universe always feels easier even when it's miserable.

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.

Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Life is a lot more easier when you are living it to impress your positive inner-self. Most people are quite hard to impress

The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you.

He realized then that he’d never want to be with anyone else, he’d never want to be anywhere else, and he would surely crumble to ash if this woman walked out his life.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Separation is the first cause of inequality.

Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity.

Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.

Doubt not your purpose nor your strength.

I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.

A lake cannot remain stormy for a long time

I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down'

And so everything depends on you, Bertie. Bishop or rook. Your life or mine. Do what you believe you have to do.

Don't waste your time trying to understand why other people are happy with their choices

But she does it anyway, and I sit beside her...because strength is a choice.

One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.

Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.

Worry is perhaps the most useless emotion

The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea.

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.

I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.

A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.

Man to woman

The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.

In foster care it’s easier to measure what you’ve lost over what you have gained, because it there aren’t many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else’s plans for your life.

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.

[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn't necessarily feel better afterwards.