Time Quotes

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Time flies never to be recalled.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.