On Time Quotes

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.

We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

I even believe [Donald Trump] won a little after - after the election rethinking, I think if we'd spent a little more time in Minnesota, we would've won Minnesota.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Jiu Jitsu is about waiting for the right time to do the right move.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.