Time Quotes

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Time is the devourer of all things.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

My time is now.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.