Top 100 Don't Have Time Quotes
#1. It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses.
Deyth Banger
#2. So you have been paying attention."
"I'm not as stupid as you think I am."
"You have no idea how stupid I think you are, and honestly, we don't have time for that conversation."
Hadrian scowled.
Michael J. Sullivan
#3. I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice.
Tom Douglas
#4. A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: It consumes so much of our time that we don't have time for matters of state.
Billy Graham
#5. I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.
David Beckham
#6. Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.
Claire Denis
#7. I don't have TIME to beat 'about' the bush..I VALUE MY TIME, so I would rather get into the bush and find out what's happening..!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#8. Sex criminals. Completely incurable ... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions.
George Carlin
#9. Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
Lynn Coady
#10. I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like
Adele
#11. My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.
Orhan Pamuk
#12. Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other!
Mark Lowry
#13. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.
Donald Knuth
#14. I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.
Ron White
#15. I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.
Philip K. Dick
#16. Demons, please! I ain't your hell-monkey. Really don't have time for this! Nick
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono
#18. If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky
#19. When I do a cooking class now, I tell people that the most important part is to read the recipe many times so you know what you're doing. What I don't tell them, though, is that sometimes I do parties where I'm rushing so much I don't have time to follow my own advice.
Wolfgang Puck
#21. I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?
Julia Roberts
#22. The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.
Brian Tracy
#23. I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
Courteney Cox
#24. I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.
Stephen King
#25. When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'
Mats Wilander
#27. My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
Aaron Levie
#28. If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day.
Deepak Chopra
#29. I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.
Missy Elliot
#31. If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?
Robert Fulghum
#32. People assume because I'm a coffee expert I drink lots of coffee. I can't. It takes me half an hour to brew my perfect cup. Do the math. I simply don't have time to drink more.
Kevin Sinnott
#33. Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.
Barack Obama
#34. When you don't have time to be afraid, I guess it's easy to be brave.
Maggie Stiefvater
#35. I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't. I like the animated ones, but I just don't have time to watch a lot of TV.
Atticus Shaffer
#36. I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper ... or the money to make a political contribution.
Richard J. Codey
#37. I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.
Mads Mikkelsen
#39. Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.
Terry Fox
#40. You go for a man hard and fast enough and he don't have time to think about how many is with him, he thinks about himself and how he may get clear out of the wrath that is about to set down on him.
Charles Portis
#41. I run a lot. If I don't have time to go to the gym or don't have time to work out properly, I will go for a quick run. I think running is a great way to stay fit, and I really concentrate on fitting into a realistic urban lifestyle.
Stella McCartney
#42. My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.
Sara Bareilles
#43. I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
Nia Long
#44. I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.
Grace Gealey
#45. I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.
Mike Phillips
#46. You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.
Maria V. Snyder
#47. You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.
Curtis Stone
#48. I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.
Betty White
#49. People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time.
Richie Norton
#50. When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.
Kevin O'Leary
#51. I don't have time to think about the false controversy,
Susan Rice
#52. That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#54. Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.
Michael Gira
#55. If you judge people, you don't have time to love them.
Mother Teresa
#56. I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
Carly Schroeder
#57. I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.
Raymond Kelly
#58. If you're always busy judging then you don't have time to love
Unknown
#59. I can't do it anymore ... The way you consume my mind when we aren't together? I don't have time for it anymore. I've got more important things to think about now than your little weak moments
Colleen Hoover
#60. A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.
Leo Beenhakker
#62. When you love, especially with your heart, it comes upon you so fast, you don't have time to resist.
Jennifer Ashley
#63. I really don't worry about that anymore. When you're dying, you don't have time for that junk. The shit people did to you? It's over.
Bill Konigsberg
#64. I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
Clinton Sparks
#65. Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.
Toni Servillo
#66. I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
Thomas Kretschmann
#67. I write long pieces because I don't have time to write short ones..
Trey Jones
#68. I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.
Faith Hill
#70. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey
#71. Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.
Brad Pitt
#72. Emily: But just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're all happy. Let's really look at one another... I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another.
Thornton Wilder
#73. People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.
Keith Ablow
#74. When you hear developers say, 'We don't have time to do it right.' Translation: 'We have plenty of time to do it wrong.
Nathaniel Palmer
#75. I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.
William J. Clinton
#76. I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#77. I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.
Joyce Tenneson
#78. - I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do ... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. He doesn't know where he is. He thinks this is his normal life. I don't have time to ruminate about how depressing it is that my brother can't tell the different between normalcy and eternal damnation.
Cynthia Hand
#80. All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.
Oprah Winfrey
#81. What does she see in him?"
"Power. Money." I might have imagined the pause. "Sex."
"That's disgusting."
"You asked. Don't ask things you don't want to know the answers to. I don't have time to argue. Can you walk?
Nenia Campbell
#82. I was a little late in the game for Twitter and Facebook and everything because I thought, 'Oh, I don't know. I just don't have time.'
Stacy Keibler
#83. I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.
Justina Machado
#84. I don't like days that end without answers. I'll just keep my eyes open and we'll see what happens. I look up. One of the streetlights fades, disappearing as quick as it shone, the light sucked out of it. Life can be so hilarious sometimes I don't have time to laugh.
Stacey Donovan
#85. I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.
Robin Sacredfire
#86. Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don't have time to criticize others.
Jim Rohn
#87. I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.
Tom Noonan
#88. A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.
Gil Scott-Heron
#89. I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don't have time for those idiots. I've got stuff to do.
Bill Murray
#90. Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
Paul Westerberg
#91. I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
Curtis LeMay
#92. But one thing I've learned is that the minute I start fixating on what I don't have - time, money, a child I can send to camp for the summer, central air conditioning - I just feel that much hotter and put-upon, and those bad feelings seem to attract extra obstructions to my day.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
#93. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
Mark Helprin
#94. I don't have time to worry about who doesn't like me... I'm too busy loving the people who love me.
Unknown
#95. No purchase is so urgent, no bargain so rare, that you don't have time to research it thoroughly, despite what they might have you believe. This applies, in particular, to infomercials that urge you to 'Call now, while supplies last,' or 'Call in the next 10 minutes for a free gift.'
Jean Chatzky
#96. Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.
Gracie Allen
#97. In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.
Virat Kohli
#98. If you don't have time to do it right, do you have time to do it over?
J.T. McFarland
#99. I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
Neil Cavuto
#100. When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.
Mark Miller
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