Time Quotes

I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.

One life

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.

Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.

Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Loving someone is very different from the heady feeling of being "in love, " which is, frankly, just temporary insanity.

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate, ..

When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

Divorce is a process, not an event. It takes months to unfold, a barrage of emotional ups and downs as denial is replaced by grief, grief by anger, and anger gradually eases into acceptance.

Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her."Niall turned his gaze to Irial. "What would yo

...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.

Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours

You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.

Later in the winter I'd tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different.

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

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

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

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

the day is all about getting connected.

Heschel calls the Sabbath a cathedral in time.

The Sabbath, I said, is not only an idea. It is also something you keep. With other people. You can’t just extract lessons from it.

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In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

Dying only means moving into a nicer house. We have only gone into the next room.We still are what we have always been.We aren’t far away. We are only on the other side of the pathway.

We must walk alone, but fight together - for One cause, instead of against each other.

There is time for a fight and a time for a flight

And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer.

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

I cared not a whit whether Time were “a form of thought, ” or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?

An individual is a four-dimensional objectof greatly elongated form

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.

It's always easier to take something than work for it...