Time Quotes - Page 25

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that even our breath is forced to accelerate just in order for us humans to survive. And I have always believed, that it is in our slow exhalation, where the sense of this deep spiritual energy resides. In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically.

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

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

Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.