On Time Quotes

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

I’ve always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking ‘what if’ but the ones who look to the sky and say ‘why can’t I shoot for the moon?’

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.

Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams.

It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.

Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out.

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

We like investments where the risk is time, not price.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

I watch TV all the time. Everything.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.