On Time Quotes

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.

It's weird how time can change something you thought would always stay the same.

It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over. There is no safe. There is no control.

I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.