Time Quotes

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.