On Time Quotes

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

I don't really have many hobbies but one of my favorite things to do is spend time with my family. We have fun together, and building those relationships is very important to me.

God is not asking us to not have anything or even to give away every single thing that we have. He is asking us to share with people who have less than us, which we do all the time.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

Kyle Idleman’s Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It’s a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!

I think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the same thing every time."

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time.

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

In L.A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.