Time Quotes About Life & Change – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

James A. Baldwin

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Theodore Parker

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Quentin Tarantino

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

George MacDonald

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Jean Racine

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

Isaac Asimov

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

John Burns

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Elliott Carter

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Bernard Baruch

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

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

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop

A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.

Darren L. Johnson

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

Daniel Okrent

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

John Abizaid

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

Lynn Abbey

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Jerzy Kosinski

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

Edgar Watson Howe

At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

Douglas Sirk

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Rabindranath Tagore

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Joe Baca

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Barbara Bush

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louis Kronenberger

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

Clyde Tombaugh

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Thomas Hobbes

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

Barney Frank

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Penelope Lively

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Stendhal

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Terence

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

Christine Gregoire

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

Tahar Ben Jelloun