What Is Time Quotes

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.

Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

I eat all of the time... at least five little meals a day.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

Living the abundant life is different than knowing about it. It's time to begin practicing the life we were made for.

At all times it is better to have a method.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

I think we have to realize that God sometimes gives us more time to pray, and when he does this, we can pray that he will bless those who have opportunities to speak to others.

God is holding you in His heart, right at this very moment. It's a fact that can make you feel so small yet so big at the same time.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.