Time Quotes About Life & Change – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Joan D. Vinge

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

Ella Maillart

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Brian Tracy

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

Dean Kamen

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

Hugh Shelton

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Alan Dundes

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Timothy Radcliffe

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Will Durant

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

John Edwards

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

Christie Hefner

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Walter Lippmann

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

William Godwin

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

Walter Lang

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

Michael Ondaatje

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

Richard Russo

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

Max Baucus

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

Alice Hoffman

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Ann Coulter

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Ken Kesey

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Albert Einstein

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Phil McGraw

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

Terry Southern

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

William Feather

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Bernard Baruch

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

John Ciardi

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Earl Warren

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

Grace Napolitano

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Adlai E. Stevenson