Quotes About Time

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time," she said. "I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.