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Quotes About Time

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
~ Ed Gillespie
Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
~ Edgar Guest
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
~ Edith Wharton
In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.
~ Edith Wharton
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
~ Edmund Burke
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
~ Edmund Burke
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.
~ Edmund Waller
Spending time in the presence of Jesus is a non-negotiable. Don't wait until you have time to do it. MAKE time.
~ Christine Caine
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
~ Al Franken
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
~ Albert Camus
Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
~ Andrew Marvell
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
~ Barbara Bush
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
~ Barry Hannah
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.
~ Burton Silverman
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.
~ Christian Bale
Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.
~ Condoleezza Rice
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
~ Dante Alighieri
Time is a perishable commodity.
~ David Hume
DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.
~ Deepak Chopra
Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
~ Dorothy Kilgallen
Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
~ Francis Cornford
Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.
~ Frank Warren