Time Quotes

"Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now."

"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima."

"Trust is a product of test over time."

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

"Time is the least thing we have of."

"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

"Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right."

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

"Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you."

"Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time."

"We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living."

"President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again."

"When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band."

"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early."

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."

"I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever."

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."

"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."

"In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time."

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

"I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging."

"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."

"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own."

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

"Time abides long enough for those who make use of it."

"Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time."

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."

"One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring."

"My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like."

"There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time."

"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

"I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time."

"You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it."

"Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show."

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."

"I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof."

"I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out."

"The busy have no time for tears."

"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."

"You may delay, but time will not."