Time Quotes

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

~ Richard Smyth

But I get it; it's a way to mark time. When your life's too busy, it forces you to check in with yourself. Or when it feels all the same all the time, maybe it can make you feel special.

~ Jami Attenberg

Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like fruit that is ready, ripe and refined for its pleasurable taste.Even scriptural wisdom documents that Many are called, few are chosen.Those chosen 'few' may deeply sense that at the core function of elevation is an acension both to and from a higher positioned calling for it...a destiny appointment that will be met without haste...separation has the ability to confirm that elevation has its own appointment...prompted by the foreknowledge of a most SUPER natural selection.

~ Tracey Bond

When we return to our elementary school playground or the site of our first kiss, we're dropping in on our own history years later. Visiting those same places in the present not only collapses time, but also memory.

~ Kevin Smokler

The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun or hear the songs of larks like crystal fountains playing against the sky. No hand enfolded mine in the warm clasp of love. My thoughts were again solitary, disintegrate, disharmonious – the music gone. I lived alone in a few pleasant rooms, feeling my life run out aimlessly with the tedious hours: the life of an old maid ran out of my fingertips.

~ Anna Kavan

Over time, even the tiniest meaningful actions add up, each one bringing you closer to a life that is truer to your dreams and free of regret.

~ Jane Mcgonigal

The whole world was no more than the precise length of each moment that separated them.

~ Félix J. Palma

If a photon is emitted by an electron inside of a clock on Earth and it travels to a clock four light years away, time stops for the clock on Earth and time jumps forward eight years for the distant clock, also the electron that will capture the photon becomes infinitely large, relative to the photon but the electron that emitted it does not become infinitely small therefore, time is not perfectly symmetrical.

~ R.a.delmonico

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Years vanish. Months collapse. Time is like a tall building made of playing cards. It seems orderly until a strong gust of wind comes along and blows the whole thing skyward. Imagine it: an entire deck of cards soaring like a flock of birds.

~ Dani Shapiro

People who understand how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom. They have too many important tasks to accomplish that they can hardly get bored.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Rules are for people with the luxury of time.

~ Renee Carlino

Nobody ever goes before their time.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You can run away to take control of your time right now.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Make time to study the Holy Scripture.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you understand that through the power of conversion in solitude you can become great, so many things you’ve been wasting your time on will no longer interest you. You will even run away from some friends.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is real hard work that will release your potential

~ Sunday Adelaja

Time well spent is an investment of the present for a practical and abundant future.

~ V.j. Lao

When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

At last, the clock settled in the right place.

~ R.j. Lawrence

They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.

~ R.j. Lawrence

Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.

~ R.j. Lawrence

You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I know so much pressure is on all of us to waste time and to just trivialize it. There is so much pressure on us to try to overcome boredom by spending time on frivolities.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.

~ Joyce Rachelle

How perfect to be aboard a ship withmaybe a hundred years still in my pocket.But it's late, for all of us,and in truth the only ship there isis the ship we are all onburning the world as we go.

~ Mary Oliver

The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear's youth.

~ Javier Enríquez Serralde

Somehow everything always came down to time, she realized with perfect lucidity. There was either too much or too little. It either passed too quickly or too slowly. It didn’t belong to anyone—it was simply a gift, bestowed by God, and yet eternally taken for granted. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing Time could be tamed—reigned in—and tethered, synchronized with human needs and wants. But that wasn’t the case, was it?

~ R. W. Patterson

The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for life. It had sat unopened for so long, suffocating in the silence, it's memories blanketed by a thick layer of dust.

~ Rachel Autumn Deering

If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush.

~ Sunday Adelaja

And the only thing I knew how to do was to hold on as tightly as possible and count every single second until I reached the last one. The one I dreaded most.Sudden, violent, final.The end.

~ Cecilia Vinesse

The only way to saturate the earth with your products like Steve Jobs is to invest your time doing what you were born to do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

~ Chris Burkmenn

Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You have to come to understand that your life is diminishing rapidly if you don’t convert it into valuable products.

~ Sunday Adelaja

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky