All Quotes By Tag: Time

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

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.”

“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”

“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”

“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”

“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.”

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”

“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”

“I’m not much but I’m all I have.”