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Quotes About Time

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
~ Diane Ackerman
I'm more aware of time. The element of time.
~ Dianne Wiest
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.
~ Dohee
Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.
~ Dolly Parton
The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
~ Don Cornelius
You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
~ Donald Glover
When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.
~ Donald Trump
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
~ Donna Tartt
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you.
~ Doris Lessing
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.
~ Dorothy Maclean
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.
~ Douglas Adams
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?
~ Drake
I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.
~ Drew Barrymore
I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much at night, because I don't like to - I'd rather watch TV.
~ Drew Magary
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel
~ e. e. cummings
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.
~ Eckhart Tolle