Time Quotes - Page 20

Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

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.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

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

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature... We do not need to beg Him to bless us, He simply cannot help it. Therefore God is enough! God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Desperate times breed desperate measures

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

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very confident in being single until I find someone who I'm extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.