On Time Quotes

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.

One of the things Ive learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

I dream about running all the time.

Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.