Quotes About Time

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

Time never stops for the great ones.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

The most precious resource we have is time.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.