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Quotes About Time

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
~ William Whipple
The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
~ Ralph Peters
As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.
~ Tom Waits
I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.
~ Rashida Jones
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
~ Alain de Botton
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
~ John Dyer
As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
~ Alice Meynell
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
~ Rainbow Rowell
It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
~ Eliot Spitzer
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
~ William Hague
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.
~ Susan Wiggs
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
~ Curtis Armstrong
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
~ Anne Tyler
Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.
~ Anthony Caro
Morning is the best time to see movies.
~ Christopher Walken
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
~ Michael Tilson Thomas
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
~ Van Morrison
There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
~ James Dyson
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
~ Hugh Jackman
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
~ Andy Stanley
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
~ Marco Rubio