On Time Quotes

You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.

Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.

We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

The worst old age is that of the mind.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.