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Quotes About Time

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
~ James Branch Cabell
The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.
~ James Gustave Speth
I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?
~ James Joyce
We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.
~ Jamie Hyneman
I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.
~ Jay Mohr
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
~ Jean Genet
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.
~ Jeff Bezos
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.
~ Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.
~ Jim Rohn
Time properly invested is worth a fortune.
~ Jim Rohn
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
~ Johann Gustav Droysen
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
~ John Bunyan
Truth is child of Time.
~ John Ford
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
~ John Lehman
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.
~ John M. Ford
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
~ John Osborne
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
~ John Ruskin
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
~ John Updike
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
~ Jose Arguelles
It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.
~ Joseph Hall