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Quotes About Time

It was my policy never to spend more than half my wages so as not to have to work for more than half my days on earth.
~ Quentin Crisp
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
~ Quentin Crisp
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
~ Quentin Crisp
I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Oh, and Miss Himmelsteen, short of my wife and kids dead on the highway, hold all my calls. In fact, if my wife and kids are dead, well, they'll all be just as dead thirty minutes from now, so hold all my calls.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra, que me llevare el blanco día
~ Quevedo
Al capdavall, només vivim un o dos cops.
~ Quim Monzó
she never asked. She waited for the shrapnel buried in his soul to work its own way to the surface.
~ Quintin Jardine
You know it's time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves.
~ Quoted in The Cockle Bur
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
~ R. C. Sheriff
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
~ R. D. Laing
History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.
~ R. Jackson Wilson
The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not.
~ R. Joseph Hoffmann
It was quiet in the room. Only the clock ticked on in the remorseless, mechanical minutes that men have made for themselves to measure away the joy and sadness of their earthly lives.
~ R.A. Dick
I discover that waiting may be accomplished in divers ways. And stillness has many . . . appearances, as does warmth.
~ R.A. MacAvoy
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
~ R.C. Sproul Jr.
Gains for all our losses There are gains for all our losses There are balms for all our pains But when youth the dream departs It takes some thing from our hearts And never comes again We are stronger and are better Under manhood's sterner reign Still we feel that some thing sweet Followed youth with flying feet And will never come again. Some thing beautiful has vanished And we sigh for it in vain We behold it every where---- On the earth and in the air---- But it never comes again.
~ R.H. Stoddard
because the world is God's creation and law order, it is the truth which in time shall prevail and triumph.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.
~ R.L. LaFevers
Reluctantly, I headed for the stairs. I wasn't dawdling. Not exactly. Just giving Father a bit of time to calm down.
~ R.L. LaFevers
Life's every moment, hour and day is important. So, man must use it purposefully.
~ R.P. Jain
Life's every moment, hour and day is important. So, man must use it purposefully. For this, it is necessary that everyday he does self-study of a ved mantra, half a shloka, shlokansh or a word. If for any reason he is unable to do so, then he must donate. If it is not possible to donate, then he should perform an act of kindness or do a good deed during the day. People, who do not follow this, are wasting every moment of their life.
~ R.P. Jain
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.
~ Régis Debray