Passage Of Time famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
-- Amy Grant

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The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
-- Charles Baxter

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The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
-- Haruki Murakami

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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
-- Joyce Carol Oates

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You look older.â€ â€œYes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
-- Veronica Roth

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One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.
-- Christine Sneed

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I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.
There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really based a lot of my inspiration on, was the most popular entertainer of his day. He was really number one. And bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles are really number one bands. But those days are very much done. I can't say that if I listen to the number one artist now that I get excited.
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?
I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.
I have always found the suburbs very beautiful â€“ the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the political dimensions of these things. I didnâ€™t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.
I've had a good run of birthdays, and now no one will notice when I die.
The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I'm not saying we're there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.