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Quotes About Time

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
~ Lewis Carroll
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
~ Winston Churchill
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
~ Stephen Covey
Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Time the devourer of everything.
~ Harry Allen Overstreet
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
~ George Santayana
My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.
~ Grete Waitz
A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.
~ Robin Williams
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
~ Albert Einstein, On Humanism
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
~ Epicurus
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
~ Mary Renault
Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.
~ Merrit Malloy
let me forget about today until tomorrow
~ Bob Dylan
I keep living this day like the next will never come.
~ Fiona Apple
There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.
~ Robyn Hitchcock
Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.
~ Bob Dylan
How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.
~ Alice Cary
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
~ Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
~ Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Love delayed is lust augmented.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.