Time Quotes

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There s...

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of ...

I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never tou...

Men are literally lying in bed with their wives when the marriage is essentially over, thinking, 'I'...

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with differ...

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What ...

For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was sp...

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time ...

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties ...

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time o...

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living i...

If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken ...

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such ch...

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. ...

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idea...

Today will die tomorrow.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and div...

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature...

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take th...

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what ...

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need...

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting...

You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things so that all the small things...

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.

Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a...

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would...

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would...

All objects exist in a moment of time.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to...

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illuminat...

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr...

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recall...

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys aw...

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deser...

Had we but world enough, and time

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near

Had we but world enough, and time...

Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think wh...

Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but...

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor ea...

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are r...

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which...

The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of t...

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on ...

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting ol...

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed o...

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with fa...

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much...

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early...

I've often made critical comments about settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and in east J...

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles w...

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I...

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come clo...

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the m...

I like having young assistants in my office; they have energy, and I spend time with them to make su...

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgott...

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never go...

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous mo...

The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare m...

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying ...

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and the...

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ...

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to h...

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report wri...

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is th...

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nic...

If one sets aside timefor a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or ...

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my...

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can c...

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as...

I saw to the south a man walking. He was breaking ground in perfect silence. He wore a harness and p...

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As re...

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 ...

For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world – l...

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back obj...

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusi...

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three ye...