Tempus Inc Quotes & Sayings

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear. — Gabby Douglas

Today was a rainy, dreary, wear-your-steel-toed-mud-shoes Wednesday. — Greg Pincus

Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth. — Roberto Bolano

One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus — Janet Morris

Spanking girls and being a girl receiving a spanking captures the feeling of falling from grace, that beyond the pleasure enhanced by the pain is a sense that you are being just a little bit wicked. — Chloe Thurlow

Xanthippe recognized it." "She would," his mother said. "She once called for its destruction." "And you didn't think she'd wonder why I was in possession of it?" She shrugged. "Xan was my backup plan if you were too slow." His mother had basically planned to set a half-mad dragon on him. She didn't care if it would have made him look like an idiot: What do you mean Tempus? I've made no Tempus. I'm wearing my mother's diamond chain. Why? She told me to. If it weren't for the bitter smell of fire surrounding them, he might've laughed at the absurdity of it. Lady Voclain was more devious and ruthless than the rest of the Bloodkin put together. Her own son! — Erin Kellison

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money. — James Lee Burke

Know that you have a center.Know that you belong there.Know that the path to the center takes no effort. — Deepak Chopra

Don't just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future. — Reshma Shetty

Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save. — Janet Morris

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone. — Janet Morris

Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things. — Ovid

Time - infinity served in finite portions. — Tyra Lynn

Quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time — Stephen King

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything. — Ovid

Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment. — Janet Morris

Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. "Gotta — Robert Crais

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life? — David Bach

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.
No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors. — Seneca The Younger

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.] — Horace

A lady is never truly embarrassed. And if she is, a lady is never gauche enough to leave survivors. — Seanan McGuire

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday. — Orson Scott Card

My second thoughts condemn
And wonder how I dare
To look you in the eye.
What right have I to swear
Even at one a.m.
To love you till I die?

Earth meets too many crimes
For fibs to interest her;
If I can give my word,
Forgiveness can recur
Any number of times
In Time. Which is absurd.

Tempus fugit. Quite.
So finish up your drink.
All flesh is grass. It is.
But who on earth can think
With heavy heart or light
Of what will come of this? — W. H. Auden

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. — Peter Sellers

Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love. — Janet Morris

Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up. — Janet Morris

If he does it again, you have my permission to break his legs and arms and make him believe he's a rodeo clown from Walla Walla," I promised. "We can make him call himself Slappy the Wonder Clown. — Molly Harper

Don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm. — Richard Strauss

The next morning the first thought that came to my mind was "Calculus of love". When love tends to infinity, thinko tends to zero. — Ram Vignesh

All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt). — Stephen King

For Tempus ... was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves ... — Janet Morris

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. — Mehmet Oz

Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.) — Boethius

And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force such as men or gods have never seen - a force worth reckoning with, if you were of a mind. And something was of that mind. And something else opposed it. He should have expected that. Battle in the heavens, battle on the earth. — Janet Morris

The Tempus, a young woman, fair with light brown hair, bowed her head to him. So she knew to acknowledge a dragon lord, though that wasn't the role he played in his life these days. A respectful spy. How quaint. — Erin Kellison

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.] — Horace

Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days. — Janet Morris

Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so. — Janet Morris

In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have been made in antiquity that one who desires, in any age, to take the position that apocalypse is at hand can easily defend it. He would not join that dour order; he would not worry about anything but Tempus, and the matter awaiting his attention. — Janet Morris