On Time Quotes

I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

In many offices it could take several days to find a paper chart and some we'll never find. Ten percent of the paper records are never found. So you have this huge delay in time.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

Time is money, but also money is money.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.

I spend a fair amount of time just thinking about whether something is feasible or not, and if it is feasible, whether it's really worth doing.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.