On Time Quotes

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

Next time you see a brother down Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: 'What are we going to do in five years' time?' A completely different attitude.

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

She must have Egyptian blood. Every time I try to kiss her she says, "Tut, Tut!"

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.