Quotes About Time

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

I don't wish to be successful but I definitely wish to be successful in helping someone, sometime for something good.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.