Top 100 For Time Quotes
#1. I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
Edmund White
#2. When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
Rose Kennedy
#4. Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
William Faulkner
#5. 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.
Peter Drucker
#6. For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#7. Love at first sight makes perfect sense because we're all pressed for time.
Bob Smith
#8. For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles slightly, but that's all.
Walter Kirn
#9. If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.
Dorothy Day
#10. I held her against me, wishing with all my heart for time to stop, now and forever.
Nicholas Sparks
#11. Some people around San Bernardino say that Arthwell Hayton suffered; others say that he did not suffer at all. Perhaps he did not, for time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time present, or future, out in the golden land where every day the world is born anew.
Joan Didion
#12. The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein
#13. You can fall in love in a second," she said with a snap of her fingers. "The heart has no regard for time.
Karina Halle
#14. The thing about heartbreak, I realized, is it's not really about waiting for things to stop hurting before you start moving. A broken heart can and will heal in time, but for time to actually do its job, I needed to acknowledge what I had lost, and move on.
Ana Tejano
#15. Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.
Frederick Seitz
#16. I just wanted you to know I'd be chasing after you right now, naked if need required it. But because I'm respecting your need for time and space, I'll force myself to lie here in bed and pretend I'm asleep.
Nicole Williams
#17. Truth is timeless. Truth does not differ from one age to another, from one people to another, from one geographical location to another ... the great all-prevailing Truth stands for time and eternity.
Billy Graham
#18. The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of
souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and
solitude.
Ole Hallesby
#19. But I've learned that sometimes, somehow, no matter how much time we spend apart from the ones we care most about, our love for them never fades, for time apart only makes our love grow stronger.
Rebecah McManus
#20. Every moment, as it has passed, has changed something in them; Time has transformed the faces, voices, laughter. For Time is a murderer, and every moment is a little death,(...)
Klaus Mann
#21. Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the same for Time magazine?
Mark S. Fowler
#23. Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Sophocles
#24. Some thrive for time, while most quickly vanish.
Carl Sagan
#25. Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#26. Beth asked for time. How long does she need? A day? A week? Hours? Any amount is too long when the girl I'm falling for had tears in her eyes.
Katie McGarry
#27. We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#28. Your life story is really about how the hands of history caught you up, played with you, and you with them. History plays for keeps. Individuals play for time.
Gregory Maguire
#29. And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.
Roberto Bolano
#30. As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.
Nick Bantock
#31. You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.
William Allen White
#32. It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming.
George W. Bush
#33. Time doesn't wait for anyone, but you always have to wait for time.
Anonymous
#34. Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.
Thomas Browne
#35. Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#36. But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time - I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#37. For Time calls only once, and that determines all.
Sophocles
#38. She could only do what farmers had done for time out of mind; tend her crops, care for her livestock and help her neighbors when and as she could.
Michael Tinker Pearce
#39. One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
Abby Wambach
#40. You wouldn't. You're an aberration," he said. "How do I know you won't kill us all anyway?" I said. "You're the one I need to feed to the fire," he said. "Drop the gun and you can save this girl." "Not terribly convincing," I said, stalling for time, hoping for that time to bring something.
Jeff Lindsay
#42. Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
Alex Ferguson
#43. In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.
Sophocles
#44. Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
Euripides
#45. He had the sense that the gods was just another name for time, but he felt that it would be as stupid to say such a thing as it would be to suggest that against the gods we can never prevail.
Richard Flanagan
#46. I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.
Lemn Sissay
#47. Assume that your reader is tired, bored, and pressed for time.
Lyn Dupre
#48. The older one gets, the harder it is to account for time. Children ask: "Are we there yet?" Adults: "How did we get here so quickly?" Somehow,
Jonathan Safran Foer
#49. Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day (For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future) on such
John Milton
#50. If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him.
"For time to stop.
"Why?"
He shrugs.
"Cause I could live forever at this moment.
Simone Elkeles
#51. Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
Sri Aurobindo
#52. One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#53. I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass
Rose Tremain
#54. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
#55. It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
Vernon Howard
#56. At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them
Paulo Coelho
#57. The thing about uniquely pretty girls is that their prettiness cares nothing for time or place. It cannot be rescheduled or relocated. They are pretty wherever they go, whenever they get there. It can be quite distracting.
David Arnold
#58. Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence
Kevin Gates
#59. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
#60. Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
Charles Dickens
#61. Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.
Vanna Bonta
#62. Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
Will Self
#63. Beginner Workout 1 3 rounds for time: 10 burpees 20 squats 30 situps
Scott James
#64. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time.
There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day.
But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting.
Mitch Albom
#65. Warm Up Stretch 6 Rounds for Time 400 meter Run 10 Push-ups 10 Sit-ups 10 Burpees Cool Down Stretch
Coach Clay
#66. The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
George Eliot
#68. That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
Alice Hoffman
#69. I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.
Todd Barry
#70. A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Bartholomew Gough
#71. The ancient Greeks had two words for time. The first was chronos. The second was kairos. The
Greg McKeown
#72. Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
H. Rider Haggard
#73. Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.
William Safire
#74. The way I try to phrase it when I am pressed for time is to say that I am sexually submissive, and socially assertive.
Senta Holland
#75. For time alone shews a man's honesty,
But in one day you may discern his guilt.
Sophocles
#76. Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her ...
Louisa May Alcott
#77. For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.
Bertolt Brecht
#79. There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.
John Robinson
#80. Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Sophocles
#81. Time is no one's friend
time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
Catherynne M Valente
#83. 'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!
Jane Hamilton
#84. As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
Angela Kinsey
#85. Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
Pythagoras
#86. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.
Max Ehrmann
#87. Nothing can separate you from God's love, absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!
Hannah Whitall Smith
#88. Enjoy today, the time you have now, for time cannot be found only lost.
Marty Rubin
#89. Life cannot be measured by time, for time is eternal. We are but students in different stages of eternal life.
L.G. Space
#90. The heart had no regard for time, no regard for pain.
Karina Halle
#91. I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.
Pico Iyer
#94. Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
David McCullough
#95. So each time a person decides to wait for 'time to change things', he or she is actually waiting for other people to change his or her fortunes.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#96. I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.
Fabian Cancellara
#97. What is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power ourselves, our souls, and all that concerns us for time and eternity?
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
#98. Experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons and ending with the day in which he found himself.
Peter Matthiessen
#99. soon after we arrived in the U.S., Baba started grumbling about American flies. He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed. "In this country, even flies are pressed for time," he'd groan.
Khaled Hosseini
#100. Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time.
Wil Wheaton
