Quotes About Time

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

So I think if we'd just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.