Quotes About Marking Time

#1. I'd had a less tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood, but somewhere in my twenties I feel like I got stalled in the process and now I'm drifting, marking time without any great passion to move forward.

Janet Evanovich

#2. Noah had been living when he was murdered. Gansey had been marking time.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.

Ronald Reagan

#4. Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

Margaret Atwood

#5. I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

Greg Lake

#6. Time marks us while we are marking time.

Theodore Roethke

#7. T just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.

Soheir Khashoggi

#8. Time doesn't stop or give warning. It simply ticks along, marking time, ignoring humanity.

Amy Harmon

#9. I love you. You don't have to say it back. You already said it, in so many words. But I want you to know, I want to say it, I want you to hear it and believe it.

Jane Seville

#10. In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.

China Mieville

#11. Agape is your genesis. Loving everyone around you is what you are all about." (Our love for one another is awakened by God's love for us.)

Francois Du Toit

#12. I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone.

Haruki Murakami

#13. The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status.

Fred Brooks

#14. One of the cashiers had taken to calling out, "Hey, Clark!" as I came in and marking my exit with "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's SuperGoth!" This was not only tiresome but inaccurate. There's a huge difference between goth and emo, but I never had the time or energy to give him a tutorial.

Elise Allen

#15. I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

Paul Rudd

#16. And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces - spaces you know can't ever be filled.

Bette Greene

#17. I suddenly see us from above. I do that all the time now. I think it's because I'm losing my humanity and it's my way of marking my descent into hell.

Karen Marie Moning

#18. If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#19. There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

Robin Hobb

#20. real living is experienced only in the pages of books. Otherwise, it is the mere marking of time. 42

Saurav Jha

#21. The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it.

Tod Wodicka

#22. When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

Maeve Binchy

#23. The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

Charlaine Harris

#24. I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed ...

James Frey

#25. The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you've got to really listen hard to somebody who's doing a good melody and a good lyric.

Barry Manilow

#26. Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15.

Ellen G. White

#27. Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

Martin Samuel

#28. Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.

Jamie Raser

#29. It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

Lois Lowry

#30. Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#31. But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.

N. Maria Kwami

#32. The Angel (in Joshua) declared that he was born leader and indicated that he was in the army of the Lord. The Lord was the commander of that angel, and he is our commander still. We favor no human on either side of any argument.

Dennis Garvin

#33. This generation ... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.

Steve Wynn