Time Quotes

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The time I kill is killing me.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.