Time Quotes - Page 35

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place - and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.

More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.