Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

Every second is of infinite value.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.