On Time Quotes
The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.
I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.
It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.
When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one
Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.
Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.
I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?
I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.
The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.
Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.
Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
