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Quotes About Time

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.
~ James Hillman
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
~ James J. Gibson
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
~ James Rowland Angell
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
~ James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
~ James Russell Lowell
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
~ Jay Griffiths
Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.
~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.
~ Jennifer Garner
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
~ Jenny McCarthy
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
~ Jesse Jackson
Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.
~ Jessi Kirby
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
~ Jet Li
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
~ Jez Butterworth
A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.
~ Jhoon Goo Rhee
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti