Time Quotes

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I've actually not read any books on time management.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

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.