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Quotes About Time

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.
~ Stanislaw Lem
In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.
~ Steig Larsson
I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
~ Stephen Hawking
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
~ Stephen King
You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
~ Steven Adler
The speed of time is one second per second.
~ Steven Wright
Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.
~ Stevie Nicks
It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.
~ Sutton Foster
All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.
~ Terence McKenna
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
~ Terry Southern
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
~ Theodor Adorno
Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.
~ Therese of Lisieux
A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Change does not take time - it takes commitment.
~ Thomas Crum
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
~ Thomas Otway
I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day
~ Tom Berenger
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
~ Tom Stoppard
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.
~ Toni Cade Bambara