Tempus Quotes

#1. All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).

Stephen King

#2. If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.

Janet Morris

#3. One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus

Janet Morris

#4. Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

Seneca The Younger

#5. Quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time

Stephen King

#6. Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth.

Roberto Bolano

#7. Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

Janet Morris

#8. The Tempus, a young woman, fair with light brown hair, bowed her head to him. So she knew to acknowledge a dragon lord, though that wasn't the role he played in his life these days. A respectful spy. How quaint.

Erin Kellison

#9. Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Ovid

#10. If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]

Horace

#11. It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

Horace

#12. Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. "Gotta

Robert Crais

#13. Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Boethius

#14. Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

Janet Morris

#15. Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.

Janet Morris

#16. For Tempus ... was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves ...

Janet Morris

#17. Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

Janet Morris

#18. Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.

Ovid

#19. Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.

Janet Morris

#20. Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.

Janet Morris

#21. People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Norman Cousins

#22. And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

James Lee Burke

#23. I never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart.

Jennifer Garner

#24. Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

John McCain

#25. Time - infinity served in finite portions.

Tyra Lynn

#26. When all my dreams come true, they'll all be about you.

DiAnn Mills

#27. The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

Denis Leary

#28. The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.

Ursula Goodenough

#29. How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

Orson Scott Card

#30. When I was in high school, I wasn't really popular. I was picked on a lot. And then I did a talent show, and kids started to tell me that I did a good job. It was the first time that my peers told me that they liked what I was doing. Something clicked, and I knew that this is what I wanted to do.

Guillermo Diaz

#31. It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#32. Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#33. People only speak to get something.

David Mamet

#34. When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Kathryn Bigelow

#35. You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.

Joaquin Andujar