Quotes about Time
The thin tunes, holding lost times and future hopes in liaison, twisted upon the Valais night.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You see, I am fate," it shouted, "and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
For this is wisdom-- to love and live, To take what fate or the gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time-- let go.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Only God can execute a regime change in which the tyrannical Powers are displaced and overthrown. This is the story of the purpose of God, "which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth" (Eph. 1:9-10).
- Fleming Rutledge
There is no more important calling for the church in our time than claiming the self-identification of the God who is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Fleming Rutledge
Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.
- Jason Fried
You can fill up your time with anything that you want. And stuff per se is not bad - technology is awesome; if you use it for the right the reason, it's great.
- Jeremy Camp
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
- Henri Nouwen
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
- St. Basil