On Time Quotes

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

I already did everything one time and that makes that one time stick out.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy.

I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.