1,020 Quotes Regarding Time


To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Demetri Martin

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
Mason Cooley

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Honore de Balzac

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam Sandler

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Franz Kafka

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!
Selena Gomez

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. Truman

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Herman Cain

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James A. Baldwin

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Lord Chesterfield

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Samuel Daniel

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Von Goethe

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Von Goethe