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Quotes About Time

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
~ Gaston Bachelard
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
~ Gene Wolfe
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.
~ George Berkeley
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
~ George Bernard Shaw
And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National
~ George Carlin
Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left
~ George Clooney
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.
~ George D. Prentice
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
~ George D. Prentice
A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.
~ George F. Kennan
Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
~ George Gissing
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.
~ George H. W. Bush
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
~ George H. W. Bush
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
~ George Herbert
After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.
~ George Lucas
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
~ George Orwell
His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
~ George Peele
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
~ George R. R. Martin
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
~ George Washington
Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?
~ Georgia Douglas Johnson
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
~ Gertrude Stein
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
~ Gladys Taber
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
~ Graham Joyce