Time

"Delay will frequently have, as it ought to have, considerable influence upon the judgment which ought to be formed upon the evidence adduced."

"Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way."

"And Mecca saddens at the long delay."

"Late, late, so late! but we can enter still. Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now."

"Pelle moras; brevis est magni fortuna favoris."

"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."

"Delays have dangerous ends."

"Maximum remedium est irse mora."

"Omnis nimium longa properanti mora est."

"Quod ratio nequiit, sspe sanavit mora."

"Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius."

"Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt."

"Tolle moras—semper nocuit differre paratis."

"Ah! nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate."

"Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!"

"Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est."

"With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay."

"Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem."

"Il fornito Sempre con danno l'attender sofferse."

"Delay always heeds danger."

"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer."

"Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained."

"The difficultest rigor is forthwith, On the image of what we see, to catch from that Irrational moment its unreasoning, As when the sun comes rising, when the sea Clears deeply, when the moon hangs on the wallOf heaven-haven. These are not things transformed. Yet we are shaken by them as if they were. <!-- We reason about them with a later reason."

"The elite of the universal religions have always substituted belief in the Infinite for the experience of it. We all need God — but only in small and measured doses. Who can look upon the burning bush and not be destroyed in its flames? Who can bear the heaven and hell of each moment blazing in time? Who can shine like a star?"

"Like a page of music, like an upper air, Like a momentary color, in which swans Were seraphs, were saints, were changing essences.The west wind was the music, the motion, the force To which the swans curveted, a will to change, A will to make iris frettings on the blank."

"Throwing down your own sword is also an art of war. If you have attained mastery of swordlessness, you will never lack for a sword. The opponent's sword is your sword. This is acting at the vanguard of the moment."

""Is," "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment."

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. … If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. … Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

"It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity."

"Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else."

"When the time comes, there is no moment for reasoning."

"I used to think I had the answers to everything But now I know Life doesn't always Go my way, yeah Feels like I'm caught in the middle That's when I realize I'm not a girl Not yet a woman All I need is time A moment that is mine While I'm in between"

"Oh, if life were made of moments, Even now and then a bad one! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one."

"In the most deeply significant of the legends concerning Jesus, we are told how the devil took him up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time; and the devil said unto him: "All this power will I give unto thee, and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will, I give it. If thou, therefore, wilt worship me, all shall be thine." Jesus, as we know, answered and said "Get thee behind me, Satan!" And he really meant it; he would have nothing to do with worldly glory, with "temporal power;" he chose the career of a revolutionary agitator, and died the death of a disturber of the peace."

"The best definition of true imagination is that it is the sum of our faculties. Poetry is the scholar's art. The acute intelligence of the imagination, the illimitable resources of its memory, its power to possess the moment it perceives — if we were speaking of light itself, and thinking of the relationship between objects and light, no further demonstration would be necessary . . . What light requires a day to do, and by day I mean a kind of Biblical revolution of time, the imagination does in the twinkling of an eye. It colors, increases, brings to a beginning and end, invents languages, crushes men, and, for that matter, gods in its hands, it says to women more than it is possible to say, it rescues all of us from what we have called absolute fact..."

"Look upon this moment. Savor it! Rejoice with great gladness! Great gladness! Remember it always, for you are joined by it. You are One, under the stars. Remember it well, then... this night, this great victory. So that in the years ahead, you can say, "I was there that night, with Arthur, the King!" For it is the doom of men that they forget."

"I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall."

"Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren, Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren."

"Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the very first time."

"In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution."

"It appears to be an inborn and imperative need of all men to regard the self as a unit. However often and however grievously this illusion is shattered, it always mends again. The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer’s voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death. And if ever the suspicion of their manifold being dawns upon men of unusual powers and of unusually delicate perceptions, so that, as all genius must, they break through the illusion of the unity of the personality and perceive that the self is made up of a bundle of selves, they have only to say so and at once the majority puts them under lock and key, calls science to aid, establishes schizomania and protects humanity from the necessity of hearing the cry of truth from the lips of these unfortunate persons."

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"You read the face of the sky and of the earth, but you have not recognized the one who is before you, and you do not know how to read this moment."

"O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time."

"The atomic mass of a moment is equal to that of eternity."

"Every moment is a gate to eternity."

"If there is meaning in the past and in the imagined future, it is captured in the moment. When you have all the time in the world, you can spend it, not on going somewhere, but on being where you are."

"What though our passing day but be A bubble on eternity; Small though the circle is, yet still ’Tis ours to colour at our will."