Time Passages Quotes

#1. You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Al Stewart

#2. Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.

Susan Sontag

#3. Fiction is overrated, Fly. We've discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that's what counts.

Rawi Hage

#4. I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

Bobby Orr

#5. This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

James Madison

#6. I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Jill Ker Conway

#7. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Because that's what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go.

James S.A. Corey

#9. By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

Jay Parini

#10. What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

Joan Didion

#11. Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Life is a symphony composed by God, played by us with preludes, themes, movements, passages ... and wrong notes, so many wrong notes. Heaven is where we get to hear the music played perfectly for the first time.

Tiffany Reisz

#13. At that time I would read passages of Father's books or a newspaper article that I was certain he had read because I wanted to follow a trail he had taken.

Hisham Matar

#14. Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

St. Jerome

#15. Envy is for people who don't have the self-esteem to be jealous.

Bauvard

#16. The clock changed to 4:47. Passages in time. He had always wondered if it was possible to measure an interval, and here it was, two minutes had elapsed before his very eyes. One hundred and twenty seconds during which nothing had happened.

Ken Puddicombe

#17. 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Claire Tomalin

#18. A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.

Criss Jami

#19. What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

Chris Prentiss

#20. When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Pierre Corneille

#21. Winds sweep the passages of time
Forever more
Taking, leaving
Memories.

Tyler Colins

#22. The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

Joyce Carol Oates

#23. Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.

Frigyes Karinthy

#24. Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

Henri Nouwen

#25. God has a sense of humor. Don't believe me? Just look at a zebra and tell me what was going on in His mind that day.

Kim Gruenenfelder

#26. Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.

Thucydides

#27. Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers,

Banksy

#28. The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

Laurence Boldt

#29. Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived - none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

Billy Graham

#30. Reflections ... passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

Victoria June

#31. Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

Donald Glover

#32. The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Jerome K. Jerome

#33. I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

Herb Alpert

#34. I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

John Donne

#35. Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Nadine Gordimer