Time Quotes - Page 38

Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.

In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.

A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.