Michael Beschloss Quotes

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Time takes all and gives all.

Time stays, we go.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Looking back on high school, I just remember specific scenarios and thinking, wow, that was such a big deal at the time, but right now it feels like it never even happened. So I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it'll feel like it was a big deal over nothing.

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

But where are the snows of yester year?

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.