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Time quotes
Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
The last game I played in college was in the NIT against St. Mary’s. That was the first time I had come to the Oakland area. So, the last game I played in college and the first game of my NBA career were out here in the Bay Area. It’s pretty cool.
— Stephen Curry
The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.
— John-Talmage Mathis, For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them
Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?” There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realized that grandma was dead serious with us.Pg.26
— Obehi Peter Ewanfoh, Still Owing Me Goodbye
I imagined a time when being gay is as unquestioned and un-judged as is having blue eyes. Some might call it fantasy or science fiction. I’d like to think it’s the future.
— Missouri Vaun, All Things Rise
Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Oracle of Poetic Wisdom
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
— Mother Teresa
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
— Coco Chanel
You want a friend who’s going to tell you the truth. That’s what it’s about. If you don’t have a friend who’s going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he’s not a true friend.
— Donald Driver
His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time and then gives great favors and great privileges and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
With time we learn that the things we’re better off without have the ability to lead us somewhere better than we were before.
— Andrew Kendall, The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
Never allow any of your time to be wasted on the frivolities of life.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products through hard work.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
It is the conversion of time that produces results and products.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
— Frank Gehry
If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are the little things, but sometimes it is the little things that sting the most.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
You just don’t allow time to while away but you take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
In all honesty, it’s just time for me to move on with my life. Lord knows he moved on with his, Rala replied
— A. Petrov
With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!
— Germany Kent
Time is life. To manage time you simply have to manage yourself.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
Don’t worry about the future, sooner or later it’s the past. If they say the feeling’s gone then it’s time to take it back.
— Meat Loaf
God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at the time you have to feel liberated.
— Israelmore Ayivor
One step at a time I know I will reach my destination of which I consider to be a happier, healthier way of living in mind body and soul.
— Angela Vallely
If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York
Spend the first six to 12 months building a great product or service that people love, rather than chasing investors. When the time comes to engage investors, you will be meeting them from a position of strength. This makes all the difference.
— Aileen Lee
He continued with a laugh, “And for highly motivated people, there are few more frustrating situations than realizing that the goals you’ve set will require a shift in the basic laws of time and space.
— Eric C. Sinoway, Howard’s Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life’s Work
The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Millions of successful people on earth were once big time failures who tried few times again.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily “the truth” at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)
— John Assaraf, The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life
When you said no time for love, I heard needy expression of love.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.
— Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you’ve forgiven me.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning!
— Avijeet Das
No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.
— Andrea Goeglein
Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia
— Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
— Compton Gage
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
— John Cameron
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Life is not a question of how much happiness we want, it is how happiness uses time to make our wants into need.
— Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Unless you’re in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn’t have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.
— Ari Gold, The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By
You must make time daily for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
— Alaa Al Aswany, On the State of Egypt: A Novelist’s Provocative Reflections
Defeat the warriors of patience and time with Cosmic Ordering.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
— Douglas Coupland, Life After God
When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
— H. Rider Haggard, She
I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
— Chris Martin
Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don’t do.
— Shawn Casemore, Operational Empowerment: Collaborate, Innovate, and Engage to Beat the Competition
Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more.
— Sybil Stanton
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn’t yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
— Sebastian Horsley
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
— Antony Gormley
I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it’s time to really look at the future and not at the past.
— Kalpana Chawla
The world hast fast to pass away- And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.
— Compton Gage
The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.
— Simon Greenleaf
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.
— H.G. Wells, You Can’t Be Too Careful
If what you want doesn’t occupy space, time and energy in your life. If it doesn’t involve some frustration, exasperation, anger, sadness, or fear; then I dare say: It’s not real! It’s a fairy tale!
— Akiroq Brost
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
— Abraham Verghese
One must divide one’s time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
— Albert Einstein
I told you. Time moves differently for everyone; but for everyone, time runs out. Such is the way of things. To die here, at home, is enough for me.
— Lanie Bross, Chaos
Old age has its compensations. More than ever I see each day as a gift from God. It is also a time to reflect back on God’s goodness over the years and an opportunity to assure others that God truly is faithful to His promises.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
— Brad Henry
The only time she’s come close to being “known” was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while talking about her favorite poem.
— C.B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick
Why the hell you have to feel bad! … like ” I am crazy”….. even if you are not !! many else out there …. feel the same in some point of time to be crazy enough, Hence…. let’s just be practical and take light! “Be yourself to live the Life.
— Praveen Chenna
It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Entrepreneurship isn’t about luck, it’s about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
— Onyi Anyado
Like most modern people, I don’t believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
— Maya Angelou
Nothing can compare with the time spent with God
— Sunday Adelaja
Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.
— Shannon L. Alder
Forever feels a long time when you’re eighteen. When you’re away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.
— Jane Green, Bookends
We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.
— Leviak B. Kelly, The Leprechaun Delusion
Love could end even though it was true love. Love could be false love, or the wrong kind of love, or love that came at the wrong time to the right people, or at the right time to the wrong people.
— Leila Rasheed, Diamonds and Deceit
Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.(“The Undying Thing”)
— Barry Pain, Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others
This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a storm. The canvas was her doorway and the paint all the thunder and lightning, the wild pain-filled sky caught inside her.
— Michelle Frost, Wisdoms of the Light
Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.
— Shannon L. Alder
When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.
— Louis Theroux
Don’t stop learning. A time will come when your dreams will go global and you will turn and laugh at how local you’ve been. Start local anyway!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The world, control phones, don’t you think??? But not only phones everything, the world time and how is build make you angry and nerves. Good moments pass fast, bad pass slow, but WHY?? It’s th right question?
— Deyth Banger
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
— John Wanamaker
Make sure you spend time learning how to think and learning how to learn. It’s okay to have fun, but try to cultivate interests that might actually be useful. And whatever you do, if you are going to spend time on it, do it well.
— Rohvannyn Shaw
I always speak so highly of my mom because she’s my partner in crime, and none of this would be possible without her love and support. Always have to make time for Mom.
— Shemar Moore
You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back
— Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
— Sigmund Freud
I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we’re going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.
— Jim Lampley
I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
— Ben Okri
Older doesn’t always mean wiser. It just means that you’ve had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
— George S. Clason
It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut
— Jonathan Schell
When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference
— Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness – something they usually lack.
— Chris Marlow, Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are
Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.
— Proverbs
There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we’re going, and that sort of thing.
— Larry Wilmore
Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
— David Suzuki
Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
The next time the world tells you “Stop”, “Don’t”, or “You can’t do this”, the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, “No, I want to do this.
— Joud Tabaza, No, I Want To Do This
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Each time he came he would twist my defenceless body into a different pose, as if I were his very own doll
— Rachel Abbott, Only the Innocent
Solving Criminal case with wasting time on Internet , And your Future Cases will Pending Untouched Till the End and you never realize that.
— Yaganesh Derasari
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
— John Leonard
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation.
— Eudora Welty
Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating!
— Ruchi Sanghvi
I tell my girls when you have done everything humanly possible, when you have fought with everything in you for something you truly believe in and it is still out of reach, it’s time to become a feather. Let the wind guide you for awhile….
— Susan Goldsmith
The good news is that being in gratitude does not require time and money. All it requires is an attitude of being grateful.
— Vishwas Chavan, Vishwasutras: Universal Principles for Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences
How did you get in here?’ (…) ‘How I got here isn’t important, because I could do it twenty times again, each time a different way.
— Rachel Aaron, The Spirit Thief
You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I’m grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don’t ask someone you to love to walk out of your life
— Jaci Burton, Straddling the Line
Oh. Now you are not so afraid, then?”Kitty opened her mouth, indignant. “I was not afraid before! I was… shocked. How many times do you see your orphanage roommate be able to turn someone into stone?””Every time I look in the mirror.
— Ana Franco, Down the Wormhole
Whenever you’re in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
— Olly Murs
Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.
— Maria Schell
A time will come when the devil will require repayment for all he has given
— Sunday Adelaja
It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand. A flood of skin-tingling warmth consumes you, and everything shines with a fresh, colorful glow, making you forget that anything as cold and harsh as winter ever existed.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
There’s a time when it all comes together—what you long for and what you fear—and as tentative as you may feel, you’re driven to continue. At that point, the need to forge ahead is the only option, and your direction is defined despite yourself.
— Lorii Myers
I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
— Mads Mikkelsen
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
— Cicero
Dreams grow bigger and bolder every time you nourish them.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
She’d taken one look at him the first time they’d met and it was like her body had just erupted into a ball of heat and hunger.
— Katie Reus, Chasing Danger
Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Deathis living without Freedom. Resurrection is living for the Dead. Eternity is victory overdeath and not many will taste of it.” – Freddy Schofeild Mahhumane
— Freddy Sipho Mahhumane
Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery” ~ Snarky comment of Clive from “The River Swimmer” (pg 47)
— Jim Harrison
What use was time to those who’d soon achieve Digital Immortality?
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
The only time it’s hopeless is when you’re dead! Long as you’re alive, you can get better – you can make it better.
— RoAnna Sylver, Chameleon Moon
When is the last time you got angry at someone treating you with respect?
— Joseph Shrand MD
Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I’m not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I’ve known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they’d become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
— Milla Jovovich
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
— Joe Moore
Life’s much more pleasing when you don’t have to spend all of your time thinking.
— David Eddings, Crystal Gorge
How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
— Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
Another piano falls, but this time it’s me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever.
— Kris Kidd
Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Grades are still important, buy they are not the most important things. As clichéd as it is, the things you learn outside class is more important than the textbooks you blindly memorize in time for exams.
— Marcella Purnama, What I Wish I Had Known
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die… I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.
— Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
— Louis E. Boone
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
— William Shakespeare
Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.
— Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others each batch has its own characteristics and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.
— Marge Kennedy
Is happiness found in the nest where there’s no hardship? Or is it in the outer world with vast sky? When the time comes, what would you keep and what would you abandon?
— Norn9 norn+nonet
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
— Albert Camus
Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains.””Okay”, I say.”I’ll be your mountain girl and take care of you.
— Gayle Forman
After a breath and before another, there’s plenty of time to rest.
— Basith, Autopsy of the seasons
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
— George Bernard Shaw
Don’t miss the beauty behind otherwise your whole race will end up with wasting time running on trademill.
— Ankit Samrat
… And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box…. and the balls to use it.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
— Keith Thibodeaux
Joblessness gives you time to grow
— Sunday Adelaja
Employment bargains your life and time for a piece of currency
— Sunday Adelaja
Ninja mom’s understand that training time is never wasted time.
— Anna M. Aquino
She couldn’t actually think of a time when Colton Brooks hadn’t owned a little piece of her heart.
— Laura Kaye, Dare to Resist
Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don’t know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you’ve been told, what the words suggest.
— Joyce Carol Oates, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
— William Faulkner
There will come a time in every girl’s life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn’t crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).
— Nakia R. Laushaul
Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.
— Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
When time passes, it’s the people who knew you whom you want to see; they’re the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what’s it matter what they did to you?
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads
— Ronald T. Potter-Efron
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
— Bertrand Russell
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
— Thomas Fuller
”Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I’d be stuck on Sundays rereading the five Reader’s Digest Condensed Books sitting on our red laquered living room shelf.
— Randy Susan Meyers, The Murderer’s Daughters
The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn’t come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
You’re going to wake up one day, and you’re gonna realize he’s moved on. He’ll quit trying to win you back. And you’ll regret it. And if there’s anything The Plague taught me, it’s that there isn’t time for regret anymore.
— Kirby Howell, Autumn in the Dark Meadows
People say how do you live alone? My response-I have time for myself not for loneliness…
— Ankit_pandey
If we take the time to silence the chatter in our minds, it gives our heart the opportunity to awaken from its slumber. Peace of mind begins with peace in the heart.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Gennia is eating and talking to Ruiz on the phone. Each time he takes a mouthful, he catches a whiff of his shirt, which stinks of failure and yesterday.
— Michael Robotham, Watching You
A time of solitude will always produce some fruits.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
— Aaron Copland
What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose.
— Jules Barnard, Deep Blue
Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn’t good for you and knowing when it’s time to walk away…
— BJ Morin
It was the first time she’d discovered something she really didn’t want to find, and she didn’t know what to do once she’d found it.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Life is defined by time, appreciate the beauty of time;A time to plant, a time to harvest. A time to cry, a time to laugh.A time to be sad, a time to be happy. A time to be born, a time to die.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
— Coco Chanel
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
— Helen Fisher
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
— Maya Angelou
Make time to pray.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
After deciding the territory you want to rule over, the next thing you must do is to invest your time into developing yourself and becoming the best in that territory.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
We spend lots of time in nurturing relationship, some person are lucky enough to do it for deserved ones but most of us are unlucky because when it seems we have nurtured very patiently and carefully, we end up with wrong person. That’s Life…
— Amit Aarav
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
— Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player
We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that ‘ours’ is correct; nor do ‘we’ have the time to make you correct as well.
— Dada Bhagwan
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
— Robert Peel
My stomach knotted up as heat surged through me. Why did I feel like melting every time I saw him, or heard him talk? “Stop that right now.” I blushed. “I know what you’re doing, Jace, and it’s not going to work.”Jace and Charlie.
— J.L. Clayton, A Spark of Magic
Whatsa mattah allee time talkee talk bear business? Me no savvee bear business. You no like this Gloddam show, you go somewhere else.
— Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao
This wasn’t the first time that I’d come close to death, but it was the first time I’d been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you’ve loved.
— Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light
Hate not a man for his tardiness for the only thing that is on time is
— time it self.
If you’re not working on the best idea right now, you’re wasting your time & money
— Pedro Perry
Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.
— James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.
— Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers
As one widow put it to me, “Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.
— Mark Matousek, When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.
— Farkas Bolyai
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
— Carl Andre
If you had all the time in the world but your knowledge, wisdom and understanding remained unchanged, your life would remain the same.
— Mensah Oteh
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
— Auguste Rodin
Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution
— Sunday Adelaja
Create your own path.Don’t blindly follow the massess… because most of the time the “M” is silent.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection “Success or Stress”Choose Wisely
He believes it’s time to redesign Evil from the ground up; to face the challenges and opportunities of a diverse, rapidly changing society.“He’s thinking of calling it, ” said Miss Gold, “New Evil.
— Tom Holt, The Good, the Bad and the Smug
We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time – To let the punishment fit the crime.
— W. S. Gilbert
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57, 000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
— Maya Lin
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.
— John Robinson
I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing and when I accepted that and found the way to do it then I was able to write.
— Robert B. Parker
God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she’d found a man worth shattering for.
— Joey W. Hill, Worth the Wait
Be careful of him Dai, whether you agree with me or not that boy is a time bomb just waiting to explode, and when he does he’s going hit everyone in his way including you . . . or especially you.– Benjirou Uie warning Dai about Kane from “Game Boys
— Rochelle H. Ragnarok, Game Boys
if someone gets jealous from you, dont think about that why they get jealous from you……because thats time time your journey of life to beng a successful person is started
— sunny jassi
Does your reality match your expectations? If not it’s time to change either your expectations or your reality.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself.
— Holly Mosier
The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.
— Truth Devour, Unrequited
Miss Gerhart, the last time I saw you, you had quite a mouthful to shout at me. You’re really quiet today. Cat got your tongue?
— J.B. McGee, Broken
If you knew that your time is your life, you would protect it as much as you protect your life.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
But the sounds behind me tell me why. I risk a glance and see so many Zs on our asses that I wonder if they’ve been doing pilates all this time to get in shape for the great Whispering Pines mad-dash marathon.
— Jake Bible, Z-Burbia
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Writings
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
— Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
There’s no time like the present to love deeply, claim our power and live our purpose!
— Kristi Bowman
I’m not trouble at all. I’m just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I’m like every song on the radio.
— Hailey Abbott, Boy Crazy
What do you live for when everyone and everything you love is gone? Do you keep going, keep stumbling through the dark, or do you find something new to cherish? Maybe neither. Maybe you walk silently and ignore the blows time takes on your heart.
— Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem
Every time you used, it was a risk searching for a high just like the first time, a high you would never find again.
— Bob Pastorella, Mojo Rising
Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.
— Mary Adams
People want to spend time together and I just couldn’t pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don’t do that.
— Laura Marling
The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.
— Lora Leigh, Elizabeth’s Wolf
We’re wasting our time trying to deal with Baghdad, It’s better to call for independence today.
— Davan Yahya Khalil
The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it
— Sunday Adelaja
The last time she was up here, she had been… staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
Always spend your time on things that add value and purpose to your life
— Sunday Adelaja
It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Internet, ” [Judy] Singer said, “is a prosthetic device for people who can’t socialize without it.” For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.
— Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
In a time of destruction, create something.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
True friendship is counted in memories, experiences, and troubles shared; it’s a bond built up over time in person, not a virtual tally on the Internet. It finds you; you don’t find it.
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn’t seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.
— kandi dougherty
Where your attention goes, your time goes
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization evolve to new heights. Humans soar on the wings of our violent nature. There’s no other way.
— Adam Burch, Song of Edmon
For tho’ from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.
— Stephen Richards
Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don’t spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
— Vikrmn, 10 Golden Steps of Life
The first time I called myself a ‘Witch’ was the most magical moment of my life.
— Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it’s time to go home and wash my knickers.
— Kate Winslet
I want to say more, but don’t know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there’s no room in the air.
— David Levithan, Every Day
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
— Walter Mosley
Time is so important.’so spend time doing something that you love.’ make the most of it and Let the good times roll in your existence!
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what’s divine can come in dark skin.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
— Linda Hogan
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
It’s time to kick ass and chew bubblegum! We made it to Hollywood, time to give these aliens the golden boot!” – Angel from the Thousand Years War
— Angel Ramon Medina, The Thousand Years War
Timetick tocksays the clockwhirrling bynever shyquietly passlayer upon grassuntil time has gone.than you die.
— Kayla Dunn
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
— J. Michael Straczynski
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
— Milan Kundera
The main purpose of our time is to establish God’s Kingdom on this earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
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., Believing God: Twelve Biblical Promises Christians Struggle to Accept
I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.
— Auliq Ice
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything’s dark, dingy – what a great time for a movie!
— John Hughes
If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.
— Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
— Tony Abbott
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack’s Car, but that didn’t last.
— Jack Irons
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
— Rex Stout, Before Midnight
Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right priciples and in the right way
— Fulton J. Sheen
Most of the great men who converted their time to products although late are still making more impact in the world today than a greater percentage of people who are still alive.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
She said…she said don’t be scared, we wasn’t born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
— Napoleon Hill
There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can’t. And time passing is one thing that can’t be undone. Come this far, and you can’t go back.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
Now is the right time for you to become excellent. By taking action on your dreams of excellence, you start polishing the rough diamond you are. As you buff and shine yourself with practice, sparkling success becomes yours.
— Mark F. LaMoure
When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.
— Therone Shellman
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
— Letitia Baldrige
There is time for everything.
— Thomas A. Edison
Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Effective time management is instrumental for economic reformation.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. … Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
— Norman Cousins
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing ‘The Spirit of Champagne’ on pointe, in Paris. I thought, ‘I don’t want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!
— Martha Graham, Blood Memory
When was the last time someone ran their fingers through the knots of your soul?
— Maza-Dohta
The first time he wrapped his arms around her and bent his head to caress her lips with his, she was caught by surprise and felt a breathless tingle shoot through her. Was this it, she wondered?
— Emily Arden, The Gemini Effect: Deception: Book Three
Hasn’t anyone taken their time to love you in a while?
— Stella Knights, Taken Outback
So the earth is shaking Here the word’s faking As there’s no time for lies. Kiss and dance all nights! In no need of balanceNothing makes sense Get it loose with no excuse. Shake and dance!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
I had spent so much time secretly scared of rape that in that moment I was hardly even afraid anymore. Or rather I had moved on to my next fear—what happens when it’s over? Would I be left there, alone? Injured? Or worse?
— Amber Dawn, Sub Rosa
As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
And my father didn’t have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn’t have black quarterbacks, and I don’t think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11″. So I just picked baseball.
— Willie Mays
Pink, You are gentle and sweet just like this rose. When your rose pink lips smiled at me that first time I remembered how to smile.~Riley
— Ottilie Weber, Beneath the Scars
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
AT any given time we are either taking Ownership or Blaming, Ownership is a better choice!!
— Harrish Sairaman
Don’t give up. Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. There is a time for the fulfillment of your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
— Christopher Wren
All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.
— Michael Paterniti
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
— John McEnroe
The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
— Damon Wayans
Time in the most powerful thing.Not money, not power, not hope.A person can have everything theydesire but without time they are, all useless.
— Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer
There comes a day in life, when you have said all that you ever wanted to say to someone. But that someone is still waiting. Waiting for words to come out. And that’s when you know there is nothing much left. It is time to say goodbye.
— Anushka Bhartiya
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman’s desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, – or will, given time enough.
— Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
— Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl
I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.Don’t make enemies, I told myself.Swallow your pride.Hold your tongue.But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.
— Jen Crane, Rare Form
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I’m just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you’re not special anymore.
— Ann Druyan, A Famous Broken Heart: A Fantasy Novel
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.
— Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there’s no exit in any direction’Cept the one that you can’t see with your eyes
— Bob Dylan
the time will come, my dearwhen I will hold you closeand all will beright againin the world.
— Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
Maximizing time is making sure that every second is accounted for
— Sunday Adelaja
But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, ‘The last truth is that there is no magic.
— Raymond E. Feist, Prince of the Blood
In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image – a new year.
— Arabella Weir
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.
— Anatole France
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
— P.D. James, The Lighthouse
To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of all places, and to live in one time as in the morning twilight of eternity.
— Anthony Esolen
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I’ve learned that I can’t have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.
— Kim Cattrall
The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.
— Melanie Crowder
Invest your time in producing product or service
— Sunday Adelaja
I’m thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.
— Chuck Berry
There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don’t have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.
— Helen Bamber
Take time to regularly assess how you spend your time. Be ready to make changes that suit the goals pursue at a particular time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
If you want success and wealth, then stop spending too much time on cyber world.
— Ehabib
While he spends all of his time trying to remember, I spend all of my time trying to forget.I don’t want to remember how it feels to love him.I want to forget everything in this world that reminds me of him.
— Colleen Hoover, Never Never: Part Three
If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
He tossed her over his shoulder and stalked back to the bedroom. “What do you think you’re doing?” “I’ve had enough babysitting duty. It’s time for some grownup action.
— Terry Spear, Jaguar Pride
If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love – it’s a Coca-Cola cake.
— Kimberly Schlapman
How is it that time can be elastic? Sometimes years seem to go by while you’re looking the other way, and sometimes-when you most long for it to pass-life-times can stretch from a few hours
— Polly Johnson, Stones
Just run away from your problems if you want cause sometimes we need a time to think and cool down a bit before making a decision.
— Adel Sakura
Three dimensional time converts scalar waves into transverse waves.
— R.A.Delmonico
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
— Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.
— Sydney Strand, Bad Mom Rents a Man: Mother’s Day
Anybody can lose, ‘ cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. ‘You need to remember that every time you win.
— Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness
My grandmotherhad no time for old, no matter how her face crinkledor her days folded like an apron aroundher middle.
— April Michelle Bratten, It Broke Anyway
Inspiration is not just a short-term momentum. It could take time and generations of change to truly build a culture of creativity.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
Life is only this place this time and these people right here and now.
— Vincent Collins
I guess I like things that take time and attention. More worthwhile that way.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door
It is important to recognise that you may have dismissed intuitive experiences as pure chance when they occured. Now is the time to open your thoughts to the probability that you are far more intuitive than you ever realised.
— Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
We are very skilled, but at the same time too lazy.
— Alin Sav
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
— Paulo Coelho
i took a night drive.i needed to get away.i needed to knowit’s okay to goand have no destination, where time moves slowor doesn’t exist.that life can be like this, aimless wandering, just breathing, living, driving forever underneath the stars.
— Ava, You Are Safe Here.
Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.
— Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays
I run until time stops. Until my mind stops.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
If today you don’t have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today
— Amit Abraham
Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills, and talents.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
— William Shakespeare
Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
— Natalie Portman
The process of time brings our transformation to fruition. Free yourself to live through the processes God puts you through because at the appointed time He will cause you to bear much fruit – all for purpose of glorifying Him in the world.
— LaShawnda Jones, The Process of Asking For, Receiving and Giving Love & Forgiveness
I wouldn’t say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time – phones, music players, etc. – are blobjects.
— Scott Westerfeld
Convert your time into useful assets
— Sunday Adelaja
The journey of motherhood centers on being the person God has chosen out of all humanity and space and time to care for these souls, these beings who will exist for all eternity.
— Rachel Balducci, How Do You Tuck In a Superhero?: And Other Delightful Mysteries of Raising Boys
Yes, life is full of awkward moments! For example, that time you keep dazing off while staring at the same person you found yourself staring at five minutes ago. *gulp* So glad staring is still not illegal. Or, at least I’m glad for my own benefit.
— Mary Kate
Death gives people the courage to be honest, sometimes for the first time in their lives.
— Elise Maybelle, Timecrest
Then she smiles, like it’sthe first time she’s seen sunafter a decade of winters.
— Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
Always enjoyed a smile with dimplesBut time adds wrinkles to the smile
— Richard L. Ratliff
We can look at our tattoos from cancer treatment as awful reminders of a ghastly time in our lives, or we can use them as reminders of what God brought us through.
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.
— Toni Morrison, God Help the Child
No more relationships ! No more wasting time !No more feelings !
— Eyad Ayman Kaifi
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
— Fred Allen
Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people.
— Aline Alzime
Ben walks in the room and asks, “What were you guys doing?” Nikki says “Nothing” at the same time I say, “Your sister and I were just makin’ out.
— Simone Elkeles, Chain Reaction
I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with ‘A Christmas Carol’ and you’re getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
— John Cusack
By the age of thirteen, any blossoming girl knows the power she possesses over boys. By the time she’s thirty she’s come to realize men would stoop to fucking chickens under the right circumstances.
— Jack Dancer, Detour Allure
Did you bring me a rat?””He has no time for rats, George.””No time for rats? That’s just sad.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
— Christina Perri
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
— Joe Rogan
When we try to slow things down, it tries to run ahead of us. When we try to fast forward it, it holds us back. Einstein was probably right about it, time IS elastic. One pull at it and it will snap back onto you.
— Saptarshi Majumder
I’ll fight when needed, revel when there’s an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes…But I will not let anyone use me against my will.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess how the absorbing pursuit of the moment will appear, not only to others, but to ourselves, a very short time hence.
— Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age
There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.
— Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.
— Ken Poirot
Culture becomes visible when we travel between “ cultures ” and when we look back in time to other “ cultures ” than our own.
— Michael Ryan
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.
— Lilly Singh
Every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Adversity or time of trouble is an opportunity to either fall or stand, fail or pass, faint or be strong. The choice is yours.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discover Uncover and Recover All: The Ziklag Experience
The only way I survive is to never stop moving. I make sure I’m always surrounded by others, so I won’t have time to think and end up imploding like a dying star.
— Amy Plum, Die Once More
By the time a fool learns how to hold a spear, the lion has eaten him.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man’s mind are beginnings in God’s plan.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
The ’80s were fabulous. The ’90s sucked, and the ’70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There’s something that’s just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and ‘I’m a loner.’
— Jennifer Sky
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I’m feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.
— Jeff Mangum
Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources.
— Sunday Adelaja
The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.
— Orrin Woodward
This world isn’t a fair place, because we never know how much time we’ve really got.
— Zoe Cruz, Beastia
Sometimes you need to be alone in order to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it.
— Robert Tew
We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women’s Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked. I mean, our house was auctioned off and the car repossessed in the driveway. We had to start over again.
— Linda McMahon
I’m not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I’m recognized – that would be absolute misery.
— Ian Mckellen
Why do you think you are always right?” Asks a dumb person that can’t understand why I make a living as a self-help author or why she is wasting my time and I will never speak to her ever again.
— Robin Sacredfire
In the romantic sense, I’m pretty useless with guys. If I see somebody who I’m attracted to, generally I just think, ‘Oh well, he’s not interested in me.’ The only time that I talk to guys is when they talk to me first.
— Carrie Underwood
Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well… not yet, give me time and a crayon.
— Matt Smith
My whole life, I’ve been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it’s an amazing thing.
— Joshua Bell
Don’t waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There’s no time for that nonsense.
— Tanya Masse
I’m always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I’m packed and set to go. That comes from my time in the army. I used to travel in a tank, but now it’s a tour bus going to safer places.
— James Blunt
It’s time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance
To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.
— David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
Use your time to gain knowledge
— Sunday Adelaja
(Answers to life) – You don’t have to have it all figured out by a certain age or time in your life. It will come in bits and pieces along the way.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life’s Quest for Success
It’s not like they can take anything from me, ‘ he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. ‘Ain’t got nothing to give. Nothin’ but time, that is. And I been doin’ time my whole life, one way or the other.
— Edward Humes, No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
Boys don’t gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, “Darling, love me!” I wanted to shake her, ‘ answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.
— Louisa May Alcott, Jo’s Boys
There comes a time to speak your truth and the time is now
— Renae A. Sauter
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We’ll blow your socks off.
— Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
— Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying.-RVM
— R.v.m.
An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
I don’t have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It’s guaranteed to cure a cold.
— John Legend
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time – producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
— Shakira
Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers – folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
— Barton Gellman
Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.
— Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised
if you can’t make a joke at a time like this, what’s the point of living?
— Chloe Neill, Midnight Marked
The good thing about winning the race against time is that even though your time is diminishing you always have a product to show for it.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
I’ve played a ghost, cat, snake. I’ve been funny, sad. I’ve been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don’t need to accept everything I’m offered.
— Maggie Cheung
As long as they were together, they could face anything. For the first time in a long time, she didn’t feel alone—and she knew he didn’t either.
— Katie Reus, Saved by Darkness
I think there’s a time in your life where you don’t feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you’re a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.
— Matthew Vaughn
Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl’s Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates
It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.
— Chris Womersley, Bereft
Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
— Mason Cooley
Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand.
— Cressida Cowell, How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse
Because the first time they met…Y-da: “You know, Y-naga-san, the more makeup you put on, the more you look like a guy in drag. So I’m going to call you F-mio!”Y-naga: “I-I like this person!”The moment she fell in love.
— Fumi Yoshinaga, Not Love But Delicious Foods
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.
— Allen Ginsberg
I’m sure I’ll know it by the time I’m 80.
— Margaret Free
Stop wasting your time over what you can’t control, make the most of what you can control and miracles are bound to happen.
— Ane Krstevska
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can’t buy time.
— Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
My family and I are so close, it’s important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.
— Gia Coppola
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge
— Jane Austen
Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.
— Peggy A. Borel
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
The length of our lives are far shorter then we realise and half of the time when we become aware of such truth, we have lived most of it as someone else.
— Nikki Rowe
God is an on time God.You may not see what’s ahead of you, but with the patience and guidance from God, He will give you the desires of your heart.
— Deborah N. Kabwang, Secrets Buried in the Soul
The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.
— Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
The Buddha taught that most problems – if only you give them enough time and space – will eventually wear themselves out.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Being rude to someone loving all the time can make your loving behavior same as your rude one for that person. So you should not always be rude in small mistakes
— Pawan Mehra
Channel your energy into your God-given purpose. Being out of a job gives you all the time you need to grow
— Sunday Adelaja
You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
— Gary Zukav
I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.
— Matthew Donnelly
It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Most of the time you’re too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, ‘I work at ‘Saturday Night Live, ‘ and that is so cool.
— Tina Fey
Like they say, you never know a person till you’ve done time with them.
— Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The eternity of “anytime” shines in this moment “now” while the unlimitedness of “anyplace” is manifested in the limits of “here.” When the universality of “anyone” dances out in the individual “I, ” for the first time you have the world of Zen.
— Omori Sogen, An Introduction to Zen Training
We have an infinite ability to make an impact but we have a finite time here to make a difference and to leave some sort of legacy
— Thomas Narofsky, You are Unstoppable!: Unleash Your Inspired Life
War in men’s eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory’s sake; – Wait a little longer.
— Charles Mackay
…we spend a lot of time defining behavior by the negative “that was inappropriate.” These commands are vague and inefficient…Telling students what to do in a way that is specific, concrete, sequential and observable refocuses us on teaching.
— Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Life is as a result of time evolution
— Sunday Adelaja
The last time someone had laid out a suit and a pair of dress shoes with a ticket purchased for a faraway place, Henry had refused to go.This time, Henry refused to stay.
— Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Now, when I look into his eyes, I don’t see death – but eternity. For the first time in my life, I am looking into someone’s gaze and realizing that not only do I understand what’s in his eyes…he understands what’s in mine.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain fond of her. We are relatives, after all.
— Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
— Tom Ford
When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it’s amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.
— Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows…
— W.H. Davies, The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.
— Harold Lloyd
The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years.
— Abhijit Naskar, Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness
Most of the things to guarantee your death have already been done so you can spend the rest of your time focusing on the things that can guarantee your success and happiness.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
She drank the glass with breakfast and poured herself another. By the time she’d gotten Sean off to school (second grade) the edges had been taken off her thoughts and the world seemed as it should be: not too real, but real enough.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.
— Sunday Adelaja
One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way.
— Andrena Sawyer
Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
— Suzy Kassem
You’re only as good as your next idea. And if you can’t agree on that, then it’s time to walk.
— John Hegarty, Hegarty on Advertising
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
— Meir Kahane
Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.
— Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
— Steve Jobs
What often matters more than the activity we’re doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
— Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
— Arnold Bennett
A fresh bottle of Jack waited on the end table, but for the first time in weeks I didn’t feel the need to pour a nightcap. The music was better.
— Craig Schaefer, The Long Way Down
Find time for a private conversation with your creator so that you can ask Him about the purpose of your existence
— Sunday Adelaja
When nobody around you seems to measure up it’s time to check your yardstick.
— Bill Lemley
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
— John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
— Adam Hochschild
People who truly live their lives don’t have time to complain or judge others. They’re too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!
— Charlotte Eriksson
Allow the resurrected Christ to allocate your time as His own . . . and have complete right-of-way throughout your being.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack
— Nina Jean Slack
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.
— Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
Don’t ask what it will cost or how much of your time you will have to sacrifice. Instead, ask what it’s worth.
— Mensah Oteh, The Best Chance: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose, Reaching Your Potential, Experiencing Fulfilment and Achieving Success in Any Area of Life
All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.
— Nathalie M. Leblanc, Shrinking Forward
If it takes you more time to clean your makeup than to watch a movie… you already have a problem.
— mopana
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad but New York City?
— Henny Youngman
Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn’t give up on their dreams, failure could not sink them. They triumphed at last!
— Israelmore Ayivor
I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.
— Vicki Covington, Bird of Paradise
Measure your life by how much of your time you have converted.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.
— David Vann, Aquarium
It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
You never know in TV – sometimes you’re on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don’t get a chance to catch on.
— Larry Wilmore
Don’t waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.
— Joel Osteen
You don’t die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
It’s weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it’s literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.
— Randall Munroe
No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.’ The Commandant said it for me.’Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it…
— Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan
We’ve tried to live in balance with nature long enough. This time nature went too far. As soon as you and your fiance are safely out of here, I’m calling in an air strike to napalm this whole forest.
— Mykle Hansen, HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died… Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control?
— Lionel Suggs
If you have no time to love everyone, then just love one, but don’t forget to love.
— Debasish Mridha
I regret those times when I’ve chosen the dark side. I’ve wasted enough time not being happy.
— Jessica Lange
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I’m afraid I’ll stutter.
— Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
‘Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
— William Shakespeare
I had met death before, in different forms–I knew quite well the pattern of my grieving. First came shock, and then tears, and then a bitter anger, followed by a softer grief that time would wear away.
— Susanna Kearsley, The Splendour Falls
As if I’d had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she’d let me out of her sight.
— Nenia Campbell, Armed and Dangerous
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
— Ada Lovelace
If we spend more time praising and thanking God for His daily benefits and blessing and all the good things He bestows, there wouldn’t be time to blame, complain. cry and moan over the bad things.
— Pazaria Smith
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
— Martin Amis, London Fields
Time is precious, so use it wisely in every area of your life including having a relationship with God through”The Door”, Jesus Christ! No one knows how much time that they have to live, so don’t allow time to run out on you!
— Anita R. Sneed-Carter
The essential thing is to run period!And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.
— Bernd Heinrich
Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
— Saint Bartholomew
We don’t have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won’t stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.
— William Stafford
In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.
— Christopher Paul Flateau
Like everybody else, I’ve had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn’t trust the person I was in love with one inch.
— Salman Rushdie
Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Indecision has a way of not moving forward. And who says time doesn’t stand still?
— C.C. Wyatt
Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.
— Kaiden Blake
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM – and they keep track of this – is a little over four years.
— Bill Gates
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
— Benjamin Constant
Any time a beloved character is killed off, it affects the audience in a very powerful way, especially in a series.
— Darynda Jones
Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.
— Shobhaa Dé, Superstar India: From Incredible to Unstoppable
The time has come, that man should change his ideas to respect the woman and woman should her to trust the man. Now social interactions need a better way to grow up.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
— Andre Maurois
If you’re right & I’m not, I’m going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
— Brian Andreas
It’s a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
— Del Close
The relationship between a guy and a girl naturally becomes more intimate as they spend time together.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult’s Guide to a Meaningful Future
I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.
— Mia Hamm, Go For the Goal: A Champion’s Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn’t have time to live it.
— Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I’d love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
— Luigi Pirandello
Stifling your emotions is not the way. Ignoring your emotions is not the way. Your emotions carry important messages for you. Take the time to receive the meaning.
— Stevie Puckett, Bliss or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
— Euripides
Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
— Dion Boucicault
That’s the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on from someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.
— Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics
It’s time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.
— F.H. Buckley
Red’s had her day. It’s time to give pink a go.
— Anthony T. Hincks
In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.
— Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Staring at the can clock never influence the appointed time that God has ordained for your manifestation. Hold your peace, but don’t shift focus.
— Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose
All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born
— John Burnside, A Summer of Drowning
How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?
— Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy
look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…
— Colette
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal
Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents?
— Ralph Webster, A Smile in One Eye: a Tear in the Other
The only instrument through which time could be converted to yield greatness is the instrumentality of work.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
A sense of the value of time … is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
— Arnold Bennett
For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror – and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control.
— Algernon Blackwood, Monster Mix
Never surround yourself with people who are envious of your ambitions. Decide to be at the right place at the right time and save yourself for greater opportunities.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.
— Anthony Liccione
It’s been my experience when you lie things work out in such a way that you are obliged to tell many more lies to cover up your first one. It’s so much easier to just tell the truth the first time around.
— Astrid Yrigollen, His Black Wings
You have never let me down. You are always there for me. You are the best part of me, who I want to be, and every time I look at you I can hardly believe how lucky I am to be with you and I hope you know that.
— Dawn Metcalf, Invisible
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
— Aravind Adiga
I wish it need not have happened in my time, ” said Frodo.”So do I, ” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
It’s a full time job with a part-time companion.
— Sylvia Day, Bared to You
Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament
Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
The concept of “work-life balance” is a fleeting idea for a Bombshell. Instead, a focus on work-life success—where her time and energy shifts based on the rotating demands of each area of her life—is far more realistic.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Betrayed
Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don’t ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you
— Donna Ball, At Home on Ladybug Farm
Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
— Lord Chesterfield
The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It’s no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.
— Coco J. Ginger
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
— Quentin Tarantino
In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.
— Winston S. Churchill
I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation’s Guide to a Meaningful Future
c. “So, hunny, don’t waste your time trying to label or define me…’cause I’m not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I’m all of that and then some. And whereas I can’t live inside yesterday’s pain, I can’t live without it.
— George C. Wolfe, The Colored Museum
I know that the future seems hard and scary, but it will get better, I promise. It’s time for you to move on. Get going.
— Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
— Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood
I need to stop saying LMAO because that is precisely what’s happening; I wish I could rewind time by two decades, immortalize my derriere in wax, and then kiss it goodbye.
— Donna Lynn Hope
We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.
— John Mariotti
To lose time is to lose a life, so don’t waste time.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain’s success – so for me there’s no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
— David Cameron
Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.
— Lori Lansens, The Wife’s Tale
IMPROVIDENCEThe other lives I might have ledAll now might as well beDead. Survived by no one.Barren, without issue of any sort:This withered bud, failedIn art and love. With no time leftTo change my course. But time enoughfor infinite remorse.
— John Tottenham, The Inertia Variations
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
— Alan W. Watts
A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.
— Orrin Woodward
The only way I could describe what kissing him felt like was, like the last day of school, knowing that months of freedom and sunshine lay before you, the feeling that you could do anything you wanted and time stretched out in endless possibilities.
— Robin Benway, Emmy & Oliver
Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time – every time I have a birthday.
— Laurence Olivier
Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
— Marcel Proust
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
— Bill Russell
When you understand the power of praise, you can’t waste precious time on cursing the enemy, but rather be steadfast in praising God for the guaranteed victories. After all there is no essence in fighting battles that are won already.
— Gugu Mona
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
— Jonathan Sacks
After the barter system money was introduced to the world and it had a limited value, but as the time passed it’s value increased and now in 21st century money is given the value of GOD.
— Neymat Khan
To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift
— Sunday Adelaja
the real essence of our lifetime lies in the time of our lives
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I’m a responsible soul. But anyone who has the chance to spend time with me can see I’m still 22 years old. I love talking about clothes and guys and shoes and makeup. Plus, I’m obsessed with anything Hello Kitty!
— Jordin Sparks
Don’t become so impatient that you end up moving before your time & miss open doors & new opportunities. Let God direct your steps.
— Genereux Philip
I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.
— Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.
— Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago
Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.
— Waylon H. Lewis
I’m sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.
— Deborah Curtis, Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend’s blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. “I tried to stop her.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
— Toni Morrison, Sula
I don’t really go on diets because when I go on a diet, my brain stops working. I mean, really, that’s all I think about: what I can eat, what I can’t eat. I sort of decided that’s not what I want to do with my time on this planet. It’s not it.
— Sarah Dunn
Products are only gotten from a time well converted and that financial wealth is a product of time.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it’s less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.
— Hannah Harrington, Saving June
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life
— Sunday Adelaja
It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences – it is him.
— Mary Gaitskill
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre for Shakespeare’s birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
— Alfred Enoch
How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.
— André Aciman
Sometimes its better to take the stairs because till the time the other person opens the door of the elevator, you reach your destination.
— Ameya Agrawal
We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.
— Lindy West
Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they’re gonna jump on it…. There’s gonna be haters.
— Justin Bieber
He seemed only … annoyed. Annoyed, and sweaty, and hot. “Yeah, well, ” he said, “the next time you decide to sneak out of our magically warded apartment through a door that shouldn’t really exist, leave a note.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
There is only one way to make money: sell something. You’re either selling your time or a product. The secret? Productize your time. That’s freedom.
— Richie Norton
The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision
— Sunday Adelaja
The right word said at right time is sacred utterance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Should’ is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.
— Frank Beddor
Although time is equally possessed by everyone, it is valued and used differently by the successful.
— Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life’s Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused
The period of time between eligibility to vote and the start of adulthood is a window of opportunity that the liberals are willing to exploit to their advantage.
— Mike Klepper
The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was the amount of time you’d known someone and then there was the way you’d spent that time.
— Jill Shalvis, He’s So Fine
It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I’d lost a long time ago.
— Nic Sheff
I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
— Mike Tyson
The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that he had them on “hold, ” a curious expression since it was the first time in half an hour he hadn’t been holding one.
— Robert Lynn Asprin, Myth-ing Persons
Silence wrapped around us as time itself held its breath, quietly coaxing us to that secret place of sighs and whispers where we might just lose ourselves completely and truly find each other.”- William RolfeA Vampire’s Dominion
— Vanessa Fewings, A Vampire’s Dominion
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
— May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
I’m really enjoying Creating my Soundtrack …. Delusional Love…. I wanted to create it a long time ago inspired by the Delusional Love I had in my life ……..Delusional Love (Fake Emotions) ….Coming soon
— Sami Abouzid
My life, my strength and my time are my greatest riches.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Whichever point you reach in the future, that will be a miracle! If you reach tomorrow, that will be a miracle! If you reach next week or next year, that will be a miracle! Your every arrival to any point in the future time is a great victory!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Winter is a time to pause, reflect and renew for the coming Spring.
— Eileen Anglin
Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The hard time is when people remembers you, because you need to be with them and its easy when they forgets you.
— Nutan Bajracharya
This is a time of change, ” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.
— P.J. Parker, America Túwaqachi: The Saga of an American Family
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else’s box of matches
— Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don’t bring out the best in them.
— Nikki Rowe
Damn, her voice was awfully sexy for being a tree. Coop wasn’t sure he was comfortable with that thought. Probably a good time to head out, before he started trying to hump a knothole or something.
— Cindy Spencer Pape, Sporting Wood
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
— Clarence Day Jr.
If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?
— Richie Norton
A road often travelled has heavy traffic and you take more time to reach the destination.
— Ajeet Sharma, Three Marketeers
It’s not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It’s a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.
— George R.R. Martin
The only time I hold my wife’s hand tightly is when my wallet is in her other hand.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
This connection we have isn’t going away, it’s only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
— Homer, The Odyssey
Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what to expect. I would be ready. I would be prepared.
— Erica Sehyun Song, The Pax Valley
… consider the meaning of these images. Every time you’re working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal something is, the more its universality emerges.
— Fiona Wood, Cloudwish
Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!
— K. Lamb
The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it’s the flip side of the coin, you’re right my left, the front the back, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.”― Bob Proctor
— Bob Proctor
What could be a better use of your time than establishing a game plan for your life?
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
If you truly desire to be great, you must understand time management.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden
There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.
— Thomas Warfield
When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Ah, my dad’s whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we’d hear the whistle and we’d all come running. Like dogs!
— Kate Winslet
Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Sometimes, rather than just think about it, we need to feel about it. The intellect is limited or finite, while intuition connects to a sea of unlimited consciousness that expands far beyond time and space (as we know it).
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create…
— Dorothy Breininger
Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own.
— Germany Kent
My mind is like a little house, My peers break into.They rearrange my furniture, And the cabinets rifle through.They throw things out;They put things in, And erase the writing on the wall, And by the time that they walk out, It’s not my mind at all.
— Margo T. Rose, The Words
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.
— Jeffrey Tucker
If two people are meant for one another, that doesn’t mean that they have to rush and be together right away. Real love takes time to grow, just like how it takes time to grow from children to adults.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
When you’re lost there’s nowhere to go but forward. One step at a time – and the way will show itself.
— Sam J. Charlton, Journey of Shadows
Never stop asking questions. Always take time to reflect and find answers. Stop, Think and Use Your Brain!
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.
— Peter Benchley
the tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
— Charles Bukowski
There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and exposed—the perfect environment for a soul-sucking, heart-crushing burst.
— Alessandra Torre, The Ghostwriter
It is only when you don’t want to do something that you never get the time to do it.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Me Before Them
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
— Queen Elizabeth II
By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.
— Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting
The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
— Banksy
There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they’re good.
— David Farland
What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want to be? Maybe life is all about trying to get up while you fall a little bit deeper in the pits of hell, each time you try not to…
— Sanhita Baruah
May you make time to relax and be refreshed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop.
— Julian Barnes
Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.
— Robert Fisk
I know you’ve been through an ordeal, but you don’t want to start drowning yourself in liquor. You’ll find that it’s easy to do, but by the time you realize it could start to be a problem, you’re already over that cliff.
— Kenya Wright, The Muse
What a slut time is. She screws everybody…
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
When you don’t find a way… don’t wait every time for others, Sometimes you have to be yourown angel.
— Chandni Maurya
I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I’ve been having a dreadful time with my heroine— I CAN’T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I’ve abandoned her for the moment, and am writing to you.
— Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.
— J.R. Rim
Know that time is a balm that slowly heals all wound. You’ll heal, you’ll learn to live with the scars, you’ll love again and you won’t be the same, nor would you want to
— Val Uchendu
So many people from my past taught me that it’s not everyone that’s in my life wants to see me achieve my goals and be great, but I thank God they’re no longer in my life because I moved on a long time ago, welcome to my present.
— Werley Nortreus
You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.
— David Wong, John Dies at the End
You see, Dr. Sherrington, ‘ the devil said, ‘we are more alike than you think.’ He got up again on all fours looking in the direction of the voice. It was time to face the devil.
— Lawren Leo, Love’s Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
The most important thing you need to do to accomplish your purpose is to stop, get comfortable, sit down and find time for thinking
— Sunday Adelaja
When I’m focusing on what’s important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn’t Working
There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.
— Brian Van Reet, Spoils
It’s time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Make the best of the time you have left, live like there is no tomorrow.
— Martin M. Stupak
No, this is pretty much the same version I read, ” I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war.” pg.57
— Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird
Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.
— Steve C. Roberts, One Minute Thoughts: A Daily Devotional
Most police cars are the equivalent of an electrical room on wheels and it does not surprise me that police officers that spend time in such a biologically toxic environment are displaying aggression.
— Steven Magee
Relationships have their ups and downs, however if the downs outweigh the ups, then its probably time to hit the door
— Epiphana Lewis
When you are in neutral, you are completely open to whatever information needs to come through at that time for the highest good. We simply can’t be neutral if our emotions get in the way.
— Catherine Carrigan, What Is Healing? Awaken Your Intuitive Power for Health and Happiness
The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air….
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
— Hideki Tojo
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
— Ray Bradbury
The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Most people are afraid to really take the time and do the work required to love self enough to cradle their wounded parts like a newborn baby before involving anyone else in their life.
— Sanjo Jendayi, I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
— Julian Cope
The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.
— Larry Herzberg, Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings: With Observations on Culture and Language
It’s a long time between drinks.
— Anonymous
If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.
— Sara Sheridan, Truth Or Dare
it maybe brilliancy to change partner time to time as per required of sex and money.as par demand of sex mind and flirting Game But it is degeneracy Of Morality and dignity
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, “Zaki’s Gift Of Love”
All life is bound to a simple truth… that time goes on, that in each person’s life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.
— M.J. Chrisman
And evolution wasn’t even properly invented until the late 1800s. Is that enough time to get a Labrador retriever from a dire wolf? I think not.
— Bobby Henderson
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Ideas can’t die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.
— Raheel Farooq
Struggling is hard, so is achieving success; so you may as well choose success, over time it’ll seem easier.
— Rob Liano
For the first time in his life Faris felt happy and for only the second time in his life he felt he’d found a friend, and that was worth being crazy for.
— Melanie Cusick-Jones, Faris and Jack
There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c’est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!
— Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’
— Tristan Wilds
That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would feel it… a pulse. My pulse. My blood is hope.
— Hubert Martin
We have the power to build a new consensus, which rejects killing as a method for achieving results. And we can look forward to a time when the wholesale slaughter of animals in shelters is viewed as a cruel aberration of the past. We have a choice.
— Nathan Winograd
I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing.
— Amit Abraham
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
How I wished after all the hardships, you will immediately attain your reward. But it’s not that easy. You need to wait for the right time to come in your life. Always bear in mind that diligence is nothing without perseverance.
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and said, “Look at that wonderful moolight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.
— Wu Cheng’en, Monkey: The Journey to the West
Now that I’m 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there’s time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I’ll take what I can get.
— Kate Christensen
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
— Stan Slap
The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people’s time not his.
— Charles Lamb
You’ll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don’t map out where you’re going. Take time to navigate your life.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
You have to be skillful in your time management to be effective in life
— Sunday Adelaja
And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?
— Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle
I let the American people down and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.
— Richard Nixon
The more time I spent at the Finches’, the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas.
— Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
— Norman Vincent Peale
It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
A school bell that sounds annoying at 8:00am sounds exciting at 4:00pm ….it is a matter of time , you will get there.
— Osunsakin Adewale
Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.
— Anonymous
The problem was the mask… couldn’t be taken off… so much time has been on my face…
— Deyth Banger, Fakeness = Thoughts
Even Mom doesn’t understand how being in front of a camera all the time twists and warps you. How one second it makes you feel unbelievably alive and the next publicly strips you down until all that’s left is one big question mark.
— Heather Demetrios, Something Real
I always say, ‘There’s a difference between cooked food and McDonald’s.’ Your mom’s homemade dinner – you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
— Estelle
The illusion is time itself.
— Anthony T. Hincks
The only time I ever look good dancing is if I’m next to my dad at a wedding.
— Cat Deeley
It’s old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Krew elfów
if god is real, she put all of herself into this girl. she vowed to unleash a woman so violently herself, the sky would collapse every time she came to orgasm.
— Taylor Rhodes, moira: a ghost story
Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.
— Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.
— Mary Pauline Lowry, The Earthquake Machine
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.
— Stephen Richards
O call back yesterday bid time return.
— William Shakespeare
It took me a long time to realiseThat mothers are women who carry you And not necessarily in their womb.
— Stacy Morris
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
— Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères
enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget
They were young; time hadn’t yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions…
— Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he’d like to help, but he’s pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
— Conan O’Brien
-‘What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?’There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter
— P.G. Wodehouse
Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting, learning how to cook, cooking for friends, and doing yoga.
— Ranveer Singh
The right time is now, pursue you dreams!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Congratulations, ” I tell her with a slight bow. “I hope you and your power trip will be very happy together. Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for me to go.
— Ally Carter, All Fall Down
God can do more with a few days of your time if given completely to Him, than He can with a whole life characterized by a half-hearted service.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.
— Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat
I’ve never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.
— Lena Dunham
Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed villages, kidnapped princesses.
— Leah Raeder, Unteachable
..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.
— Amy E. Spiegel, Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
Half hating, half loving, this free time between writing books.
— K.J. Mecklenfeld
The time of persecution and problems is the time to thank and praise God
— Sunday Adelaja
The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
I’m begging you, for the love of all that’s filthy and wrong in this world, have a good time with tall, dark, and raspy, okay?
— Terri L. Austin, His Kind of Trouble
The first time I was told that I had a brain injury, I immediately thought to myself, “I’m not crazy.
— Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
Recently thought of deleting my Facebook account and start using twitter, but realized it’s not easy. Facebook has become like the boyfriend I no longer like but scared to dump because I’ve invested so much time in the relationship.
— Manasa Rao
Doesn’t it scare you sometimes how time flies and nothing changes?
— Ika Natassa, Antologi Rasa
If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The first time he saw me, comatose with a head the size of 3 basketballs, he didn’t even think it was me.
— Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.
— Sunday Adelaja
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
— Charles F. Stanley
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
— Doug Collins
Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don’t practice studying things you don’t like, then you’ll have a very hard time in life.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist
This love beyond time and space, it knows only it’s own truth.” Immortalis Amor, Darkest Secrets
— Dominique Vandorien
I absolutely love spending time with my family.
— Kevin Alejandro
She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.
— D.H. Lawrence, The Virgin and the Gipsy
Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life.
— V.S. Carnes, Sand for Dreams
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
— Ralph W. Sockman
….But i couldn’t. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn’t be fair. I needed time – to become the right man for a woman like you.
— Marci Shimoff, Chicken Soup for the Single’s Soul (Chicken Soup for the Soul
All products are a multiplication of time invested
— Sunday Adelaja
We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship.
— Russell Eric Dobda
This little kid pointed at me and said, ‘You look disgusting!’ That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I’d better start eating. I’m just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.
— Susan Dey
The quality of time you dedicate to work is what determines your greatness.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime’s Funniest Person in America. And that’s a really tough title to travel around with when you’re not even known.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.
— Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The author is impacted by a hidden insistence that takes the shape of different combinations each time adifferent text is produced but the underlying problem remains the same for him.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Lacanian Author
Life will just not wait for us to live it:We are in it, now, and Now is the time to Live
— Michelle Geaney
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say “This foolishness”) any time I need to.
— Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
I know that people who don’t believe in God might scoff at the idea that the creator of the universe has the time or inclination to try incessantly (and with not much long-term success) to change my heart. I get it. I just have no other explanation.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
if i had forever to do whatever i wanted, i would spend three years in reality and spend the rest of my time just thinking and decrypting what i saw and what would have happened to make it like so.
— Angel Death
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace – or not.
— Dana Perino
It’s sad that children don’t spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what’s in the real world.
— Damian Lewis
That long sigh again, above us. This time I saw it, moving through the branches. Like the trees were listening; like they would’ve been sad about us, sad for us, only they’d heard it all so many thousand times before.
— Tana French, The Secret Place
The next time you have a high-stakes meeting, a presentation, or an important social engagement, practice power posing beforehand to potently and powerfully impact your confidence.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact
It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.
— Jane D. Hull
After a long pause in which he took the time to blink several times, he asked, “You named your breasts?”I turned my back to him with a shrug. “I named my ovaries, too, but they don’t get out as much.
— Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right
Don’t bring confusion to my table. Bring flowers. Bring books. Bring cakes.But leave your indecisiveness behind.My heart is not up for breaking (again) and my time is precious.Don’t waste either on murky thoughts and cloudy thinking.
— Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.
— Susan Catalano, The Timeless Ones
Returning to my dreams was like returning to home after a long time of being away – everything was exactly the same as you left it, except infinitely better.
— Aishabella Sheikh, Entwined
A little knee time first thing in the day keeps you standing all day!
— Evinda Lepins
Life and whatever you do in your time in this world should not be a chore. You will be spending a lot of time doing it anyway. Every moment should be fuelled by your passion. It’s your reason. It’s your why.
— Kevin Abdulrahman, The Book on What Ever You’re Into: These Are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths You Need to Know to Have a Chance at Winning
There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You gonna take the case?”It’s not a case. It’s a missing person. Sort of.”You’re gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens, ” Grandma said.
— Janet Evanovich, High Five
I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he’d read the Hugo book in any language.
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
Don’t be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Before the autumn of our years, there exists a time when we struggle to reconcile what we are with what we wish to be. This time can be known as summer. After spring gives us life, before winter takes it away.
— H.L. Sudler, Summerville
Today is the best time to do what you couldn’t do yesterday, because tomorrow might be too late.
— Gift Gugu Mona
It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)
— Elizabeth Peters, Borrower of the Night
It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I’d never even thought about killing myself.
— Steven Wright
As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it’s time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people want practical information they can use.
— Dean Ornish
The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
A world full of Love, Light & Laughter. Its time has come. Let’s make it happen.
— Sadghuru
Youthful period is the time to make manful period effective and worth living
— ETC Wanyanwu
A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.
— Jimmy Carter
I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I’ve mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
— Gautam Gambhir
You may not be a great success in everything, but every time you try you will learn something.
— Debasish Mridha
The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.
— Mike Gallagher
Sunrise – a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change . . . you have been born again.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted
— Mary Stewart, The Last Enchantment
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years – I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.
— Meg Cabot
But centuries of time have not made me insensitive
— Christopher Pike, Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it
— Sunday Adelaja
There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
— Coco Chanel
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.
— Bo Bennett
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.
— Baltasar Gracian
Every time I see something terrible, it’s like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
— Ralph Nader
Everything you do matters. Every time you share and care, the light multiplies.
— Amy Leigh Mercree, The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what’s popular.
— Wiz Khalifa
A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she’ll never go very far.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.
— Soraya Diase Coffelt
You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
— Jack Canfield
Discover and understand the true essence of time so as to know how best to utilize and effectively manage it
— Sunday Adelaja
Music links us humans, heart to heart…Across time and space, and life and death.
— Nancy Werlin, Impossible
It was time to free him from my burdens.
— Ella Frank, Veiled Innocence
My parents also had a tough time recognizing me at first. because my eyes were black and swollen shut and I had two tubes coming out of my head.
— Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
— Aristotle
Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.
— Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
— Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
— Simeon Strunsky
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.
— Malti Bhojwani
Now, when it’s time to get down to business, I get down to business.
— Juan Pablo Montoya
Love happens only once, and the second time is always a compromise made to forget the first love.
— Yaqub khan
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.
— Andrew Jackson
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
— Stephen King
There is always time to die, but never time to live.
— Anthony Liccione
The time is always now to declare your freedom!”…”The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who’s both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!
— Logan Keys
If you’re constantly making yourself available to people’s whims, your time will become less valuable. Keep your backbone in any relationship – make sure you’re not so dedicated to it, and it shall stay sweet forever.
— Auliq Ice
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
— Anthony Storr
This was shaping up to be the worst conference call of my life, even worse than that time I accidentally clogged the school toilet back in the first grade with my Boba Fett figure (I was pretending it was the Sarlaac pit).
— Rick Gualtieri, Holier Than Thou
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I spend a little time every day to play sports.
— Vladimir Putin
Etched In Bone-At night I engrave my bones with poems.Scratching.Carving.Etching.During the day I feel every notch and ridgehidden inside me.I repeat them to myself.In time others will read them tooand know me.
— Keelie Breanna
It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.
— Gena Showalter, The Closer You Come
Don’t waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm.
— Chloe Thurlow, A Girl’s Adventure
You don’t need a time machine to live in the moment.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, ‘Duck.
— Richard Just, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
I love everything about you. And I’ve felt that way for such a long time that it could last forever.
— Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart
But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else.
— Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
Spend more time alone learning keep doing that and don’t allow your mind to focus on worthless complaints. In a nutshell, there is no such thing you can’t solve it, it’s a time for your brain need to invent a solution.
— Nazim Ambalath
Whenever you feel exhausted, take time to relax, refresh and recharge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
We get stronger every time we rise after falling.
— Debasish Mridha
Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We can reach the goal but it is going to take an incredible amount of time and effort
— Sunday Adelaja
Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will.
— R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)
As a leader, it’s critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.
— Bonnie Marcus, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.
— Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
I know, at the time it was an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.
— Andrew James Pritchard, One In an Eleven Million
And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.
— Vikram Seth
As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
— Oprah Winfrey, The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words
It takes time to figure it out.Give yourself sometime.It took Abraham 100yrs
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Through Faith: Living an Overcoming Life
Each time I invent something and have it manufactured, it’s so incredibly exciting that I can’t imagine ever wanting to stop. Envisioning new products is easy for me. I just don’t have enough time in the day to design them all.
— Joy Mangano
There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!
— Steven Magee
Your breakthrough is on the way. Don’t be discouraged if things are not working out right now. God is working it all out behind the scenes. It may not come when you want, but trust that it will be right on time, because our God is an on time God.
— Germany Kent
…but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
— Jan Louch, The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town . . . and the World
I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
— Dan Simmons, Endymion
My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us – where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.
— Thomas Vilsack
How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an ‘active laziness’?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Every time you go in, it’s like starting over. You don’t know how you did the other records. You’re learning all over. It’s some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
— Beck
No age or time of life no position or circumstance has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
— Anonymous
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
— David Wood
Only cooked time tastes well
— Zeeshan Ahmed
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
— Sydney J. Harris
You know that you love someone when they are on your mind from the time you awake until the time you fall asleep. That you loved them yesterday as much as you do today and more tomorrow.
— Auliq Ice
Are you using your time to time God or you are working on God’s timing? Don’t ask God for the gift of Patience and you tell him you need it now. (A bit deep)
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Relief is a great feeling.It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the neg
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
After a long time i saw my self in mirror and i find-out a berthing machine
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, “Zaki’s Gift Of Love”
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
— William Shenstone
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
— Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
A Maximus, the Gladiator lies in every human being. When the time comes, your Maximus within you will come out. It is not called destiny, it is an extended automatic self reflex
— Anoop Raghav
Time, place, and space for all things, but spending [the] majority of one’s time playing in outer places, and far less time exploring inner space, is perhaps the worst form of neglect. Don’t play yourself; the real you awaits.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human—human werewolves, human dwarfs, human trolls …the melting pot melts in one direction only, and so we make progress.
— Terry Pratchett
For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first understand that time is life and life is time.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Over time as most people fail the survivor’s exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.
— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
True spirituality respects the vessel of creation we call “human” and intuits that because this vessel was created by God, it could only ever be perfect—even if it does need some fine-tuning from time to time.
— Tehya Sky
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
— Anatole Broyard
After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
There’s a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years, ” Flynn said. “Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
— Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart
In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times however avoid friends who sympathize too deeply who give us pity rather than strength.
— D. Lupton
I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished.
— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
My heart swells with emotion each time I recall the sweetness of my youth!
— Peggy Toney Horton, Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling
Use time and space; grow slowly into your dreams, infinity will fill you with peace.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, 365 World Moving Quotations
It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Thou shalt not invest in a needless business. Thou shalt not trade time for money. Thou shalt not operate on a limited scale. Thou shalt not relinquish control. Thou shalt not let a business startup be an event over process.
— M.J. DeMarco
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I am sure I’d have made a better all-around man if I hadn’t lost so much time just making a living.
— Herbert Hoover
Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They’re the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don’t hold your breath for either.
— Carrie Fisher
It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I understand that for beginners it isn’t that easy to sit down, close your eyes, and settle into stillness. Your thoughts have gotten used to making SO MUCH NOISE! They have enjoyed too much influence over you to simply fade the first time you try.
— Russell Simmons, Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can’t be much good.
— T. S. Eliot
A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection.
— Debasish Mridha
The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there’s less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
— Justin Rosenstein
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
— Charles Babbage
Sorry… my mind was wandering… one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.
— Steven Wright
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires – disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
— Bernie Siegel
I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.
— Jason J. Greenaway, My Daddy Loves Me: Just the Way I Was Made to Be
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
— Barbara De Angelis
I’ve learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect ’cause I like me…. I think I’m kind of cool.
— Whoopi Goldberg
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
— W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you couldn’t know when the next one was coming.
— Elizabeth Kostova
For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
— W.P. Kinsella, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
We’re not having sex, are we?”“No, ” Talia confirmed. “Don’t take it the wrong way, you’re by far the nicest insect I’ve ever spent time with, but first contact is one thing. I’m not sure my reputation can take sleeping with the first alien I meet.
— Gavin G. Smith, A Quantum Mythology
Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.
— Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina
It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays.
— Nabil N. Jamal
I felt for the first time that the library belonged here. The house was reclaiming its spirit, and the library, which had stood aloof and apart for so many years, was turning back into what it was always meant to be: the heart of this home.
— Ruth Reichl, Delicious!
To use your life to work means giving out your time to work to get compensated for it.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
If you were to spend your own time and money to hire a consultant, coach, or trainer, wouldn’t it give you more confidence knowing that they have “walked the talk” and have vast experience with what they are teaching?
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
Money is a compensation for time spent
— Sunday Adelaja
A person with good heart is always happy. However its a myth because most of the time his heart is full of wounds as it except only good thing from others still he love the people who treat it right & pray for the ones who don’t
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men’s adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
— Donald McCaig
The entire world is in turmoil. We are living in a time of enormous conflict and cultural transformation. We have been stunned by shockwaves of change in nation after nation, all around the globe.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.
— Patrick Branwell Brontë
Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die.
— Joan Wehlen Morrison, Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
I am having a good time doing nothing.
— Phylicia Rashad
You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.
— James Rozoff
Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you’re putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.
— Robert Griffin III
That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I’m fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness – that’s what makes me sad. Everyone’s so scared to be happy.
— Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone
The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing…
— Alan Dapre
Never underestimate a septuagenarian with time on his hands.
— Bernadette Pruitt, Oldies but Goodies
God determine the appointed time and boundaries of influence for every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time – a.k.a. medical progress.
— Virginia Postrel
Well, a man’s mind can’t stay in time the way his body does.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
— George Gissing
I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I’d gotten that reaction. I’d had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.
— Chris Cornell
It takes one a long time to become young. – Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone’s expectations and free-fall for once in her life
— Miranda Liasson, A Man of Honor
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
— David Friedman
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
— Maeve Binchy
Like the bees, we are – only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are -sensitive and at the same time carefully;but we never destroy them.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I’d holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best.
— Marie Helvin
If you don’t have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task.
— Debasish Mridha
There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.
— Bill O’Reilly
Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that ‘something’ was she had no idea.
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don’t see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.
— Zac Efron
I would’ve had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn’t so simple. I’d been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Like ships men flounder time and time again.
— Henry Miller
When life is going according to plan, we don’t stop to question our daily habits…Maybe it’s time to sift through our lives.
— Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer
When your dream dies, create another dream; don’t waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don’t stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But every time I go to church with you, I feel like everyone’s trying to trap me in a room and convert me.’ Which, in truth, they are. ‘I want you, and your family, to love me for who I am, ‘ he shouts, ‘To let me be who I am.
— Nicole Hardy, Confessions of a Latter-day Virgin: A Memoir
Shush – it’s silent time again.
— Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong.
— C.S. Lewis
We’ve strayed into a zone with a high magical index, ‘ he said. ‘Don’t ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we’re feeling the after-effects.’Precisely, ‘ said a passing bush.
— Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person’s life was changed forever.
— Karen McQuestion, A Scattered Life
If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. … Today should always be our most wonderful day.
— Thomas Dreier
No such thing as time travel, he’d rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you’ve done, and try in the future to do what you’re happy to live with.
— Richard K. Morgan, Thirteen
Matthew once said to me, after one of my more finely worded rants about stupid people who have the wrong opinions, “Nadia, the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.” Damn.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Leaders reject free opportunities they don’t need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Ladder
If you can not get the results you need yourself, then it is time to get help from somewhere else.
— Nina Montgomery
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a reporter. I don’t know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
— Charles Kuralt
If you want to be in my life offer me the best of your time , not the one when you have nothing to do ; offer the best of your self and i’ll do the same for you.
— Robin Dabhi
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
— Sydney J. Harris
Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.
— Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of ‘Nancy Drew’ books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
— Rachel Nichols
Make time daily to nurture your physical, mental and emotional health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written” (Matthew 4:4–10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Gods don’t like people not doing much work. People who aren’t busy all the time might start to think.
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it’s time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.
— Meg Wolfe, The Minimalist Woman’s Guide to Having It All
If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
— Harry Stack Sullivan, The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come–as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
— Thomas Fuller
Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.
— M.E. Kerr, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
— J.P. Vaswani
Every person has the inherent right to “self-proclaim”–to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.
— Robert J. Ringer, Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life
The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.
— William Littler
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you’ll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
— Flannery O’Connor
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.
— Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life
Time consciousness is the key to time conversion.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don’t have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into the act of praying; you are free to participate in the life of God.
— Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath
Never ever continue to complain of lack of time all the time for no one is in possession of all the time.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah