Time Quotes - Page 70

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Sometimes I smile so big, I get scared that my face is gonna explode.

We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that.

Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.

In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

Hard times always lead to something great.

You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

There are many who would take my time. I shun them.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.