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Quotes About Time

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.
~ Richard Schiff
The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.
~ Richard Siken
Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.
~ Richard Watson Gilder
The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them.
~ Richelle Mead
Different time, different place," I said. "Things can change. People can change.
~ Richelle Mead
I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn't there, the moments were agony.
~ Richelle Mead
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
~ Edward Abbey
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
~ Edward Abbey
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
~ Edward Abbey
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.
~ Edward Coke
The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.
~ Edward Gibbon
It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.
~ Edward Hirsch
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.
~ Edward Young
Time elaborately thrown away.
~ Edward Young
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
~ Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
~ Edward Young
Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
~ Edward Young
Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.
~ Edward Young
The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.
~ Edwin Boring
Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.
~ Ehud Barak
Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.
~ Elaine Equi
Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.
~ Eleanor Clark