On Time Quotes

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.

Quite like old times,' the room says.

This is the United States of America and it's always a busy time.

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything.

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

You eat the room service employees every time?” Denise asked, shocked. “Of course. But don’t fret on their behalf. I always tip well.

This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.

Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers almost as much fun as the film itself.

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.