Quotes About Time

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

...and time becomes a forgotten detail.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

The right time to die is never exactly now.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.