Quotes About Time

Good manners require space and time.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

True ownership of anything requires time.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.