By The Time Quotes

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That’s my promise. This time I truly mean it.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig and chèvre salad at least once a week and that's a combo that's hard to beat.

The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

It's a great time to be alive and be a computer weenie.

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

In the middle of it all, pause and look around you. Appreciate what’s beautiful. Take in the love. Nod to what’s good and true. And then move forward one step at a time.

Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

I think social media has allowed the players to be able to say things that maybe didn't come out right the first time and say what they really meant. I think that it keeps people fair and honest.

Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.