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Quotes About Time

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.
~ Martin O'Neill
A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.
~ Mort Sahl
You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.
~ Nagwa Fouad
To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.
~ Pascal Mercier
I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
~ Ringo Starr
the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!
~ Ruth Draper
It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?
~ Spider Robinson
I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.
~ St. Lucia
I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.
~ Tom Welling
There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.
~ William J. Mitchell
I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
~ Zoe Saldana
Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
~ Bahya ibn Paquda
Do whatever you have to do as quickly as you can, so you can do whatever you WANT to do, for as long as you can.
~ Jim Rohn
When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.
~ Pedro Winter
Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.
~ Tony Gonzalez
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
~ Albert Camus
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
~ Betty Comden
Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.
~ Chanel Iman
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
~ Charles Frazier
I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I've seen all the shows, I've seen all the movies, but ultimately I just want a 2-hour movie that takes me to another time and place - something that entertains me.
~ Damon Lindelof
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.
~ Dean Young
Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?
~ Eric Bolling