Top 100 All This Time Quotes
#1. He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.
Don DeLillo
#2. The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
Serj Tankian
#3. You've kept that fire burning all this time, despite all you've lost. There's nothing stronger than that. Nothing.
Mia Sheridan
#4. I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.
Sarah Dessen
#5. To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.
On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.
Waiting for her.
Sarah Addison Allen
#6. I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject.
Lord Kelvin
#7. All this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips ...
John Geddes
#8. You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.
Avril Lavigne
#9. When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. I still think of her as mine. After all this time, when I think of Meredith, she's my Meredith. Irrational? Yes.
Stupid? Most definitely.
But I don't give a fuck.
Kristen Proby
#11. When I first saw you, I saw love
And the first time you touched me, I felt love
And after all this time,
You're still the one I love.
Shania Twain
#12. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Douglas Coupland
#13. I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
Jason Patric
#14. You don't have the right to make that call, not after all this time. I can barely breathe when you're near me, but I'll surely suffocate if I have to lose you. How can you ask me to do that?" She turned her face away. "I'm stronger than you think." She looked back at him. "And I'll do my own fixing.
Madison Thorne Grey
#15. So all this time you thought I was a vampire?' Edwart whispered furiously, pulling me a few inches to the left.
'Sure,' I said, 'you know, the lion falls for the lamb ... '
'What?'
'Sorry. It's easier for me if I explain things in animal terms.
The Harvard Lampoon
#16. I knew I could do it all this time," said Harry, "Because I'd already done it ... does that make sense?
J.K. Rowling
#17. I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
Loretta Lynn
#18. But if all this time between them had taught him anything, it was that they were orbiting the same fate. Together, always together, even when physically apart.
Debra Anastasia
#19. When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.
William Shatner
#20. And all this time he was cheating on me! Making a fool out of me! He made me look stupid in front of everyone!
Amanda Laneley
#21. Corrode, v.
I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust.
David Levithan
#22. What if after all this time, it wasn't the beast in the dungeon I needed to fear, but the beauty who lived in the castle above him?
Mary Taranta
#23. How would it be.. if all my hate disappeared like my youth, if after all this time his very hatred of me turned out to be something gentle, some kind of love.
Louise Wareham Leonard
#24. You've carried my heart, all this time. Hell, you owned my soul. Don't ask me to stop dreaming of you, or to stop asking for tomorrow. Because for five years the hope that came with each tomorrow was all I had left. Remember that.
Lora Leigh
#25. If he's survived as a loner all this time, maybe he's seen Jason.
Rick Riordan
#26. A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#27. For so long, he'd wanted Gansey to see him as an equal, but it was possible that all this time, the only person who needed to see that was Adam.
Maggie Stiefvater
#28. I can't bullshit you. In all this time, you're the only person I can't fool. It's like you're bullshit-proof.
H.M. Ward
#29. Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.
Coco J. Ginger
#31. God, Jory, don't you know, after all this time? Can't you tell?
Mary Calmes
#32. You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J.J. Abrams
#33. I haven't been falling all this time. I've been flying
Lauren Oliver
#34. As Kevin listed these moments, she could see them with perfect clarity: all the missed cues and deflections, all the abortive moments of intimacy. All this time, she had been thinking of him as the one with commitment issues. Somewhere along the line, she had become an asshole.
Charlie Jane Anders
#35. After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.
Craig Ferguson
#36. Do I even want this burden any more? Probably not, I'm too old, too tired. And what, after all. have I achieved in all this time?
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#37. After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.
John Connolly
#39. After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. Chip/Colonel
John Green
#40. All this time as a mad scientist why didn't he have a shrink ray or stun gun in his closet somewhere? He had been wasting his life.
Charlie Jane Anders
#41. Arch glared at him. I've spent hundreds of years watching you mope around because you thought you lost your soul mates. You wouldn't recognize a soul mate if she walked up to you and hit you in your face. Even after all this time, you still haven't figured it out.
Rose Wynters
#42. What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
Don DeLillo
#43. After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
John Green
#44. Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
Andy Rooney
#45. Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
Alice Cooper
#46. Even after all this time, I hope.
Marie Lu
#47. All this time Lock and I had managed to be civil to one another. No drama, all efficiency. But look him in the eyes? No, I couldn't do that. That would cut me wide open, and there would be blood. Lots of blood. I'd crumble into a heap on the floor then beg him to collect the pieces.
Cat Porter
#48. There is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart.
John Green
#49. 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
#50. I wandered for many years, so long that I forgot that I possessed a soul.48 Where were you all this time? Which Beyond sheltered you and gave you sanctuary? Oh, that you must speak through me, that my speech and I are your symbol and expression! How should I decipher you?
C. G. Jung
#51. My entire life, I saw myself as the beautiful damsel or the graceful maiden. I was the princess searching for her knight. But with my newfound abilities, I finally discovered that, after all this time, I was the powerful witch.
Christina L. Barr
#52. You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of ...
Rachel Caine
#53. All this time I had thought my son was striving to be my mirror opposite, but he wasn't - he had become my polar opposite instead, and that had sent him careering away.
Steve Toltz
#54. 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
#55. That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure".
"Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid.
Kristina Douglas
#56. All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#57. Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons
like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.
Patricia Briggs
#58. Sometimes I wonder if the planets are still up there, still aligned, still managing to get along after all this time. Maybe we could learn a thing or two from them.
Tahereh Mafi
#59. Before he came to Alaka, he dared to hope that he was meant for something more. Now he dared to hope that he could shape that meaning for himself. All this time, he had expected that magic would stitch his future together. But all magic had done was show him how to stitch it together for himself.
Roshani Chokshi
#60. After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.
Meg Rosoff
#61. You spend all this time, as a child, coming up with these fantasy stories, and here I am, sleeping in a treehouse, in the middle of Canyon de Chelly, shooting a Western. That's a bit of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
James Badge Dale
#62. The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. Have you ever thought; whilst looking all this time for the magic in the world, it's been inside you all along? No matter how far you travel, how wide you spread your wings and learn to fly if you have no idea what treasures hide within you you'll be searching your entire life.
Nikki Rowe
#64. When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.
Scott Wolf
#65. In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.
Nick Nolte
#66. The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn't help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me.
"You are beautiful."
I took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed and didn't know what to say or how to react.
Nico J. Genes
#67. Is that what you think I am? All this time, and you still haven't sorted it out? Why am I surprised? You didn't notice me when we were on the Jana. You couldn't even remember my name back then, so why should I expect you to understand - to see me for what I am now!
Susan Dennard
#68. Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
Wynonna Judd
#69. The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!'
Katy B
#70. All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.
Neal Shusterman
#71. After all this time, after the world fell to ashes and the devil came out to play, she kept something that was wholly mine.
Christina Escamilla
#72. If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?
Nelly
#73. What did she want him to say - that he was still hurt over his disappointment with Margaret Macy? After all this time? It was imbecilic. He would not do it.
Julie Klassen
#74. All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn't read to escape it, you read to discover it.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#75. That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?
Peter Shaffer
#76. All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie.
She was learning to love.
Lauren Oliver
#77. The man I thought I might have been waiting for my whole life. All this time he'd been standing right in front of me, wearing a suit and a sexy-ass smile.
Samantha Young
#78. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.
J.K. Rowling
#79. Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words.
Colson Whitehead
#80. All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about Spectacles.
Jethro Tull
#81. I had absolutely no idea that all this time he'd been flirting with me.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#82. Was I made for Antonio by dint of my genetics? Was I an animal from birth? Had the ream me been dormant all this time?
C.D. Reiss
#83. Spending all this time fretting and fawning over a bloke just wasn't her. If this was what infatuation did to a girl she'd take herself off to a convent in the morning.
Kady Cross
#84. Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.
Nikki Rowe
#85. All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.
Sophie Kinsella
#86. Only if we die, or are threatened with death, do we question and whine about how all this time we wasted the gift of living.
Cameron Jace
#87. I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.
Chris Paul
#88. This is it
what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about
it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment with Joe as our mouths refuse to part. Who knew all this time I was one kiss away from being Cathy and Juliet and Elizabeth Bennet and Lady Chatterley!?
Jandy Nelson
#89. What if I'd been wrong all this time? I'd been so angry that God didn't fit the description I wanted him to fit.
Rektok Ross
#90. It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
Katherine Anne Porter
#91. Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.
Megan Smith
#92. Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?
John Green
#93. It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
Chubby Checker
#94. Dude, you've been fingering that box in your pocket all this time? I thought you had crabs or something. I was going to let you borrow my cream.
Tara Sivec
#95. Have you been waiting all this time, faithful as always, my Life? ...
John Geddes
#96. I've held it together all this time. I've held it together because I had to, carrying the grief and the fear even when I thought the weight would crush me.
Claudia Gray
#97. Liz asked me the other day what I thought about twice baked potatoes. How the fuck should I know? Was I supposed to be thinking about twice baked potatoes all this time? Is this where I went wrong? Are grown men supposed to have an opinion about twice baked potatoes?
Tara Sivec
#98. So wake me up when it's all over
When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself
And I didn't know I was lost
Aloe Blacc
#99. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.
Garance Dore
#100. Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so
to see you sitting up there so prim.
Thomas Hardy
