Best 8519 quotes in «time quotes» category

It's just a matter of time before we're late.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

It's not over until it's over.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

It takes time to save time.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. .... It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

Killing time takes practice.