Quotes About Time

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

Let us pray that Allah will guide us safely through such a time as this.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

History is the daughter of time.

I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time.