Quotes About Time

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

The fundamental things apply As time goes by.

Great towers take time to construct.

Time is that which is manufactured by clocks.

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

The calendar? A mere convention.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.