1,020 Quotes Regarding Time


It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
John D. Rockefeller

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Yakov Smirnoff

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
Bell Hooks

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
Christopher Hitchens

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
Jennifer Lopez

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Thomas Sowell

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
Deepak Chopra

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.
Naomi Judd

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
Christopher Hitchens