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Quotes About Time

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.
~ Billy Graham
There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.
~ Seal
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
~ Mark Twain
What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
~ William Shakespeare
I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.
~ T. S. Eliot
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
~ Robert Smithson
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
~ Edward Dahlberg
The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.
~ Sourav Ganguly
You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.
~ Maxwell Perkins
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
~ Bill Gates
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
~ Marcel Proust
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
~ Bo Burnham
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
~ Jean Cocteau
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
~ Sophocles
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.
~ Arnold Bennett
I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home.
~ Tom Hardy
There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.
~ Patrick Modiano
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
~ Alfred Adler
There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.
~ Layne Staley
If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.
~ Martin Luther
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
~ Judith Butler