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Quotes About Time

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.
~ Tionne Watkins
I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.
~ Tom Mison
I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
~ Tom Petty
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
~ Tom Wilson
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
~ Tony Benn
When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time
~ Tupac Shakur
It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.
~ Ursula Andress
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
~ Vandana Shiva
My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.
~ Vantile Whitfield
(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.
~ Verlyn Klinkenborg
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
~ Victor Hugo
You can not define being exactly on time.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.
~ W. G. Sebald
The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.
~ W. H. Auden
O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.
~ W. H. Auden
You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.
~ Wilferd Peterson
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
~ William Butler Yeats
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
~ William Butler Yeats
Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
~ William Cowper
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
~ William Faulkner
There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.
~ William R. Ferris
Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.
~ William Rees-Mogg
It's past time to go when you start asking yourself if it's time to go.
~ William Rotsler