Time Quotes

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.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

All great achievements require time.