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Quotes About Time

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
~ Daniel Kahneman
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
~ Josh Billings
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.
~ Dave Eggers
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
~ Jim Bishop
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
~ Arthur Brisbane
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don't choose your time.
~ Chris Marker
There are many who would take my time. I shun them.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
~ Rene Dubos
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
~ Charles Dickens
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.
~ David Fincher
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
~ Stanislav Grof
The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
~ Joseph Stalin
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
~ Abraham Cowley
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
~ Serge Gainsbourg
Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
~ David Eagleman
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.
~ John McPhee
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
~ Friedrich Engels
There are two things you should never waste your time on: things that don't matter and people that think you don't matter.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
~ Teresa of Avila
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps
~ Steven Wright
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke
~ Hermann Hesse