T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“time passes:
everyone aging in the moment that it
takes to turn the page now child now adult
now old man, rain-swept and serene”
Source: Kitchen Music
“Time passes fast when you’re not in step. If you think for a moment that you can get it back, wake up—you can’t. Some people think time is theory. Everything is a cycle of events happening over and over. If you think this is true, then be aware and learn from your mistakes.”
Source: Essence
“Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.”
“Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.”
Source: The Human Script
“Time passes irrevocably.”
“Time passes, people leave, we become alone again. If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us.”
Source: Shoko's Smile: Stories
“Time passes regardless of how we use it; we grow old whether we act or procrastinate. A person who is unwilling to work to accomplishing worthy goals and who does not dream of performing great feats will always be mediocre. A courageous soul works conscientiously to accomplish personal goals that benefit other people. I aspire to find the audacity to create a self that I am not ashamed of being and live a humble and worthy life. The seer never wants for anything but an opportunity to learn and rejoice in life. Every day is a proper day to begin or continue a vision quest to attain insight.”
“Time passes regardless of pain… It’s all about who you surround yourself with and what you do with that time that matters most. You learn to move forward with the pain best you can—there’s no leaving it behind.”
Source: Balloon Days
“Time passes slowly when you're not filling every second up with useless information. It forces you to sit with your emotions... to be a human.
I forgot how much that hurts.”
Source: Tokyo Ghost: Complete Edition
“Time passes so fast.”
“Time passes so fast. Make time to be still.”
“Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.”
“Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?”
“Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.”
Source: Some Girls Are: A Novel
“Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.”
“Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown”
“Time passes whether I stand still or move.”
“Time passes whether we notice or not. How we choose to live it, what we learn along the way, and how we embrace the unknown, this is what shapes a life worth living.”
“Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let's make the most of today.”
“Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.”
“Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained
“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.”
Source: Generosity: An Enhancement
“Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.”
Source: Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval
“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
Source: New Moon
“Time passes. That's for sure.”
Source: Chelsea Girls
“Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.”
“Time passeth swift away;
Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.”
Source: Tamburlaine the Great
“Time passing was life passing, I thought. It was life that flowed swiftly along in one direction and could not be seized or stopped. And this was something that weighed on grown-ups, an inexorable force that they feared.”
Source: The Vulnerables
“Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.”
“time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and more characters none of whom could be separated from one another or from the host, with some stuck so fast that their presence caused physical pain.”
Source: To the is-land: an autobiography
“Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.”
“Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.”
“Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.”
“Time perfects men as well as destroys them.”
“Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.”
“Time, place and nationality have the power to confer or withhold renown.”
Source: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
“Time, place, and space for all things, but spending [the] majority of one's time playing in outer places, and far less time exploring inner space, is perhaps the worst form of neglect. Don't play yourself; the real you awaits.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Time plays a major role in achieving success”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.”
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”
Source: Three Junes
“Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.”
Source: Abhorsen
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often did I have to learn that? The lessons were painful.”
Source: All Over Creation
“Time possesses emotional potency. For persons whom suffer from of bereavement, time possesses a healing capacity. Passage of time cures heartache by dimming the mind’s attunement to painful occurrences. For some people, the passage of time is akin to placing a welcomed physical boundary between themselves and past horrors. Passage of time allows us to forget and the ability to forget is medicinal. Time acts as a mental barrier between our present mental state and the pain that we once felt.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.”
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.”
Source: Four Quartets
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.”
Source: Four Quartets
“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.”
“Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products”
“Time pressures are a reality of business life that cannot be eliminated entirely and that even can create a beneficial focus at times, it can be powerful to set aside discrete occasions where individuals are invited to step back, to look at their projects from different vantages, to consider input not usually examined, and so on. This again encourages folks to express alternative points of view.”