A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of…
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Quotes tagged ‘Time’
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing.
One thing I learned, the war? Life happens now. Then later's now, y'know? It's never behind you.
— Graham Gordy, Nic Pizzolatto, Wayne Hays, Mahershala Ali, imdb.com
There’s a reason it takes four years to graduate from high school and college. It’s a tangible, formative chunk of time that allows you to figure things out.
You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
Someone you met 3 weeks ago can have better intentions than someone you met 3 years ago, don’t let time fool you.
A mysterious thing, time.
The past doesn’t disappear. It lingers inside us, in our present.
— Isabella Aguilar, Giacomo Durzi, Andrea De Sica, Damiano Younes, Riccardo Mandolini, imdb.com
Time is of the essence. Girl, you gotta be patient.
Calm down doctor, now is not the time for fear. That comes later.
— Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Bane, Tom Hardy, imdb.com
Have you ever wondered what marks our time here? If one life can really make an impact on the world... or if the choices we make matter? I believe they do. And I believe that one man can change many lives. For better... or worse.
— Mark Schwahn, Gregory Prange, Lucas Scott, Chad Michael Murray, imdb.com
[After Tracy has been shot and killed] It's...it's all right. She's just having a rest. [choking up] There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world.
You have heard the phrase 'time is a river'? What most fail to grasp is that the river is circular. One man's death opens the doorway to the birth of the next.
Everybody here sells his time for money. It’s like taking a mortgage against your life.
All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do it…
— Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg, Tommy Swerdlow, Irving 'Irv' Blitzer, John Candy, imdb.com
Time is a myth.
Let’s stop worrying about the future; all we have is today.
Memory is a strange thing. It does not work like I thought it did. We are so bound by time. By its order.
Mel: Do you know what time it is? Cher: A watch doesn't really go with this outfit, daddy.
— Amy Heckerling, Cher Horowitz, Alicia Silverstone, imdb.com