On Time Quotes

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Every time, I try to make something different.

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

I think it's a promising time which will show a lot of diversification that we've seen in the past.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.