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Quotes About Time

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
~ Edward T. Hall
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.
~ Tom Kite
I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
~ Johnny Depp
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
~ Graham Greene
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
~ James Taylor
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
~ Rowan Williams
Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
~ Russel Honore
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
~ John C. Dvorak
Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.
~ Charles de Foucauld
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.
~ Thomas Campion
We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.
~ Barack Obama
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
~ Samuel Johnson
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
~ Émile Chartier
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
~ Wilson Mizner
Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.
~ Carl Sandburg
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days
~ Jimi Hendrix
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
~ William Shakespeare
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
~ Kim Wilde
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
~ Philip Pullman