Quotes About Time

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

Holiday eating is a study in paradox. You're surrounded by food, but you're so busy shopping and cooking that you don't have time to eat. Then, when your blood sugar dips to the point of derangement, you make a desperate lunge for the closest foodstuff - and the next thing you know, you've eaten an entire box of regifted peppermint bark.

I think time has changed everything. Not only music but our surroundings, technology, fashion - everything has changed with time, and it will keep changing every day.

Fighters never realise when it is time to walk away. They can't leave the buzz and adoration that surrounds being champion.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

How well we survive this time of creative destruction, it really is, depends on each of us, on each of us fighting our individual battles of integrity, for integrity.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Sounds cliched, but I can't survive without my calendar.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

I know and live with the real Dilip Kumar. He is a simple man, hard working, who has survived time.

The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

I've heard life starts at 40. I wouldn't know until I get there... I suspect 40 would just be another number. I have never allowed myself to stop and consider my age. I've always been on the move.

I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

'Duel' is one of the greatest suspense films of all time.

I am highly suspicious of food which takes a long time to be imported.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.