Time Quotes
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.
That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.
I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”
We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.
How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
Most people spend their entire lives just trying to live life
...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)
The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.
People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)
The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!
The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.
Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.