When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute--and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. [ Albert Einstein ]
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A long trip starts with the first step. [ Lao Tse ]
Time: adorner of the ruin, comforter and the only healer when the heart hath bled. [ Lord Byron ]
Time exists because there is activity... Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences. [ Nicholas Berdyaev ]
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. [ Saint Augustine, Confessions ]
Time: nothing else than protraction, but of what I know not; and I marvel, if it be not of the mind itself. [ Saint Augustine ]
It hardly matters if time is real; at the very least we talk as if it is. [ Robert I. Binnick ]
Time is of your own making; its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought, time too stops dead.
[ Angelus Silesius ]
Wasting time is an important part of life. [ Anonymous ]
He asked me if I knew what time it was. I said, “Yes, but not right now.” [ Steven Wright ]
Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light. [ Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, 939 ]
Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. [ Shakespeare, Macbeth, I, iii ]
Man fears Time, yet Time fears the Pyramids. [ Arab proverb ]
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde ]
People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future. [ Anonymous ? ]
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. [ Thomas Jefferson ]
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. [ Robert Goddard ]
The past is history, the future is a mystery,
now is a gift –
that's why it's called the present. [ Anonymous ]
Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today. [ Sidney Greenberg ]
The future influences the present just as much as the past. [ Nietzsche ]
Look to the past to inform the future. [ African saying ]
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. [ Eleanor Roosevelt ]
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. [ Alvin Toffler ]
The present contains nothing more than the past,
and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. [ Henri Louis Bergson ]
The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too. [ Eugene O'Neill ]
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. [ Merrick Furst ]
Venerable old age is not that of long time, nor counted by the number of years: but the understanding of a man is grey hairs. [ Wisdom, 4:8 - The Holy Bible (Latin V.) ]
You can't do anything about the past; you can only do something about the future. You would be a bitter and twisted old man at the age of 40 if you always looked back. [ Allan McNish ]
No matter how long you live, die young. [ Elbert Hubbard ]
Whether time is long or short, and whether space is broad or narrow, depend upon the mind. Those whose minds are at leisure can feel one day as a millennium, and those whose thoughts are expansive can perceive a small house to be as spacious as the universe. [ Hung Tzu-ch'eng ]
Eternity is in love with the productions of time. [ William Blake ]
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour. [ William Blake ]
The present is only a mathematical line which divides
that part of eternal duration which we call the future,
from that which we call the past. [ H.P.Blavatsky ]
Our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth. [ Wisdom, 2:5 - The Holy Bible (Latin V.) ]
Yesterday is not ours to recover,
but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. [ Lyndon B.Johnson ]
The other day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven ... I almost
went back in time. [ Steven Wright ]
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. [ Frank Zappa ]
It is not the hours you put in your work that counts, it is the work you put in the hours. [ Sam Ewing ]
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. [ Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds ]
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. [ anonymous ]
The future comes one day at a time. [ Dean Acheson ]
When it is wrong today, we call them crazy; when it is right tomorrow, we call them a genius. [ in: Facets of Geniality, National Geographic TV station ]
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. [ Francis Bacon, Of Innovations ]
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you are likely to see. [ Winston Churchill ]
If you want the present to be different from the past,
study the past. [ Spinoza ]
Life must be lived forwards,
but it can only be understood backwards. [ Søren Kierkegaard ]
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. [ Dion Boucicault, London Assurance ]
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. [ Herbert Spencer, Definitions ]
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. [ Jorge Luis Borges ]
There are, assuredly, two forms of The Eternal:
the formed and the formless, the mortal and the immortal.
the stationary and the moving, the actual and the yon. [ Upanishads ]
To be aged, but not old. [ Charles Aznavour, on the BBC, March 2000. ]
The quality of your life is in direct proportion with the amount of uncertainty that you can live with. [ Anthony Robbins, on CNN, January 2000. ]
Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth. [ Proverbs, 27:1 - The Holy Bible ]
Destiny
is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
it is something to be pursued. [ anonymous ]
Love is space and time made directly perceptible to the heart. [ Marcel Proust ]
We feel as if time runs in a past-to-future direction, when we are actively involved in the doing, busy with getting ahead with our projects. Conversely, we feel as if time runs in a future-to-past direction when, in contrast, we hold a rather passive attitude, in which case "life happens" to us, instead. [ Source: Froes, TCM ]
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