On Time Quotes
The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
We all have 1,440 minutes each day to accomplish everything on our schedule. We are accountable for prioritizing the decisions we make with our time.
The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
The only time you know for sure whether creating a result is possible or not is when you have done it. All other thoughts on the matter are simply speculation.
We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
Build your world around me, and promise to never let me go, and if ever their comes a time it may seem crowded, may we expand so love may grow.
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.
If things were half as bad as some people persist in believing, I'd have retired with a bottle of Scotch and a pistol a long time ago.
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.
Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.
When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.
Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.
All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still.
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.
Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
