Time itself comes in drops.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Before 1915, space and time were thought of as a fixed arena in which events took place, but which was not affected by what happened in it. Space and time are now dynamic quantities… space and time not only affect but are also affected by everything that happens in the universe.

Time discovers truth.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Time is bunk.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.