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Quotes About Time

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
~ Dorothea Lange
In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.
~ Seth Klarman
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
~ Igor Stravinsky
God has a time for everything, a perfect schedule. He is never too soon, never too late. The when of His will is as important as the what and the how.
~ Richard Halverson
There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
~ Ed Asner
The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.
~ Nicky Gumbel
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
~ Ernie Pyle
The living moment is everything.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
~ Dale Carnegie
And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.
~ Dava Sobel
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
~ Samuel Beckett
Who owns your time owns your mind. Change your time and you change your mind. Change your mind and you change your world.
~ Jose Arguelles
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
~ Benjamin Franklin
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
~ Patrick Geddes
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
~ Wayne Rooney
Light is time thinking about itself.
~ Octavio Paz
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.
~ Jane Addams
We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.
~ Garry Kasparov
Time is the metre, memory the only plot.
~ Derek Walcott
It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
~ Rick Warren