On Time Quotes
What I'm not - I can't control other people's campaigns. If they decide that's what they want to do with their time and money, they certainly have a right to do it.
It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.
If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.
And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.
I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.
It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.
People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.
Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.
I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.
My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.
We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.
I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.
I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.
Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!
I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.