Given Time Quotes

#1. Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.

James Stephens

#2. Preferably, the window should be north facing, as this will give you the most light and the most even light at any given time of day.

James Carren

#3. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.

John Patrick Hickey

#4. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

A.P. Herbert

#5. Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.

David F. Dinges

#6. I just needed some time to think and figure out shit in my head. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was too late. I've already given you my damn heart and I don't want it back." He leans down and smiles against my lips. "I want you," he whispers.

Victoria Ashley

#7. My family was made of good people who did good things with what they were given. What fairness does life show in a time like this? But life is not fair and that is nothing new, so I bottled the pain and loss, and released them through a single tear rolling down my cheek.

B.M. Tolbert

#8. I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Eriq La Salle

#9. I believe, given enough time, all of engineering will move to paradigms based on the biological cell.

Brian Bennudriti

#10. But no one had ever given the slightest thought to the curious coincidence that the rings of Saturn had been born at the same time as the human race.

Anonymous

#11. I don't enjoy sitting with make-up all the time and that is why I have decided to go for the natural look. Not only me, I think given a choice, everybody would prefer such a look on screen.

Katrina Kaif

#12. Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. There is nothing like the time we have with those we love the most. Every moment is precious because we aren't promised tomorrow. Hold on to them tight and cherish them while you're given the chance.

N.E. Henderson

#14. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.

Seneca.

#15. Look what a hard time I've given him. But no matter how many times I've pushed him away, he always comes back around again. And I wouldn't want it any other way.

Jennifer E. Smith

#16. Trust me, change can happen in much less time given the right circumstances. Hell, sometimes the people we're closest to change and there's nothing we can do to bring them back.

Lexi Blake

#17. And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?

Phil Robertson

#18. By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

Zainab Salbi

#19. Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

Tom Baker

#20. Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

Brittany Maynard

#21. If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

Maya Angelou

#22. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.

Linda Castillo

#23. Time is not a thief but the giver of all things. Apathy, sloth and indifference are the thieves that loot the chest of wealth that time has given you"

Christopher Sharp

Christopher Sharp

#24. There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones. I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different Hamlets, and every one has given me something different.

Joel Kinnaman

#25. You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.

Mohsin Hamid

#26. Friends, I told myself. We could be friends. Friends held hands all the time, and I hadn't given up hope that maybe he could even be gay. Gay would be perfect.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#27. There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in the very time which nourishes the believing of the incredible.

William Faulkner

#28. Not only was this the first time a girl had ever given me her card, it was also, by far, the coolest contact card I had ever seen. "This is, by far, the coolest contact card I have ever seen," I said. "Thank you!" I

Ernest Cline

#29. So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.

Joel Spolsky

#30. Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#31. Time is a very precious gift-
so precious that it is only given to
us moment by moment.

Amelia Barr

#32. The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

Wilbur Smith

#33. At any given time I'm listening to the Cory Branan, Leonna Naess, Eve 6, the King's Noyse, Sean Paul, Green Day, the BoDeans, Buddy Holly, Nowell Sing We Clear ... the list goes on and on. But I rarely listen to music while I write. I start typing the lyrics.

Sarah Addison Allen

#34. At least we have each other. He held out his arms, like he would have given her a huge hug if they hadn't been strapped into their seats. The nose of the ship tipped to the right and he quickly grasped the controls again, leveling it out just in time to dodge flock of pigeons.

Marissa Meyer

#35. It's not how much you do, it's how often you do it. It simply doesn't matter if you make some monumental effort at any given time. You have it in your to give that extra little bit. You know that you could add that finishing touch. You know you can take that extra step.

Vince Poscente

#36. Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real.

Rosalind E. Krauss

#37. There is a time to mourn and a time to celebrate. We should throw ourselves wholly into each when the time comes. 'Tis a part of living. If we don't enjoy life when given the chance, then the chance may never come again.

Vonda Sinclair

#38. I believe that forgiveness given prematurely is its own form of punishment. When the hand is offered before the heart says it's time, judgment lurks behind every smile.

Jax Peters Lowell

#39. Life was given to us for an assignment

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Given time, a ship's crew will attach sexual innuendo to anything. It makes their jobs more exciting.

James Alan Gardner

#41. We each have 24 hours in a given day; how we choose to spend each moment determines how spent we are"! EL

Evinda Lepins

#42. Britain has had a very honourable tradition of literary sci-fi - H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock - but for whatever reason, they have never really been given the time of day on screen.

Richard Stanley

#43. Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time.

James S.A. Corey

#44. Life isn't about waiting for the time to come. It's all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you.

Joel Brown

#45. Given the opportunity, every one, at some point in time, will dissapoint you!

Rudy Mazzocchi

#46. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return

Anonymous

#47. Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.

Erica O'Rourke

#48. Now I really have it all. I've been given some bullshit in my time, but that....

Tim O'Rourke

#49. To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there.

Hope Davis

#50. Each activity you are working on should be done within a given time limit.

Jake Cash

#51. Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

Roger Rosenblatt

#52. This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

Christiana Figueres

#53. I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Edward Gorey

#54. Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.

Kate Bush

#55. Even those who die in terrorist attacks, and have thus had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, are described as "heroes", though given a choice most of them would no doubt have preferred to be somewhere else when the blow was struck.

Michael Korda

#56. Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given ... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.

Anita O'Day

#57. You've given me reason to really live and not just exist anymore. I don't think you realize just how much you've changed me in a very short period of time.

Maya Banks

#58. When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Edward Teller

#59. given this time is not good." 8 Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men. They are warriors and are desperate like a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier

Anonymous

#60. The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.

Lyor Cohen

#61. When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

Jeremy Spencer

#62. But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

Dwayne Johnson

#63. [ ... ] They taught us to never ever underestimate the power of chocolate on a female."
"Is that so?"
"If someone had waved a Hershey bar in front of Bonnie at the right time of the month, she'd have given up Clyde in a heartbeat.

Serena B. Miller

#64. We are not gods. We make mistakes. We do not live very long.
Sometimes someone grinds ink, mixes it with water, arranges paper, takes up a brush to record our time, our days, and we are given another life in those words.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#65. What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

#66. Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

Barry Lyga

#67. Sometimes we spend way too much time questioning the gifts we're given instead of being thankful for them.

Elisabeth Naughton

#68. those who attended the lecture course supported my views. The consequence of it all was that, a few days later, I was assigned to a regiment then stationed at Munich and given a position there as 'instruction officer.' At that time the spirit of discipline was rather weak-among those troops. It

Adolf Hitler

#69. And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel's: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everyting, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Annie Dillard

#70. Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.

George Carlin

#71. I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

Suzanne Vega

#72. Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

David Friend

#73. The time left over from these good works was given to 'making a home' for her brother, whom she adored, though she was completely undomesticated and went about it with more enthusiasm than skill.

Barbara Pym

#74. With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn't anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.

Walker Percy

#75. God can do more with a few days of your time if given completely to Him, than He can with a whole life characterized by a half-hearted service.

Billy Graham

#76. Time and wave, sun and wind, night and fire, moons and stone. We walk through the world only once. Only one life is given by the Nameless. It is a gift, a burden, a challenge, a duty to not waste it. To serve the Highest. To the end of our road, with our Honor intact.

G. Derek Adams

#77. Given a choice between death and the Buford Zippy Mart, Nico would've had a tough time deciding. At least he knew his way around the Land of the Dead. Plus the food was fresher.

Rick Riordan

#78. Freedom isn't just about getting to make your own choices. It's about getting to enjoy the life you're given, to live life to the fullest. That's the beauty of mortality, of what makes someone human. Time is treasured. The eternal ... all they have is time.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#79. I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English at the beginning. I am very thankful for this country and the opportunity music has given me ... My three kids were born here in Miami; they speak Spanish at home, but English with all their friends.

Juanes

#80. At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.

Deepak Chopra

#81. I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

Stephanie Klein

#82. I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

Steve Almond

#83. Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked.

Graham Greene

#84. Oh, I am getting married," Raisa said sleepily. "You promised me that if I agreed to marry you, that you would make it happen." She extended her hand, the one with the ring Han had given her, and waved it under his nose. "So. It's time to pay up.

Cinda Williams Chima

#85. This love was tricky; it had no hard-and-fast rules - it might be given for free, as with Jamie, or earned through time and hard work, as with Ian, or completely and heartbreakingly unattainable, as with Jared. Or

Stephenie Meyer

#86. Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

John Maynard Keynes

#87. It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.

Ryan Jarman

#88. A woman who's given me a home-a purpose.And for the first time in my life,I-"
"A purpose?" Jennika squints, as she cocks her head and steps closer. "And just what exactly might that be? You planning to take over her garden? Apprentice as an herbal healer? I had much higher hopes for you, Daire.

Alyson Noel

#89. It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition.

Thomas Hardy

#90. For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.

George Orwell

#91. I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

Bryan Cranston

#92. Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

Bruce Lee

#93. Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.

C.P. Cavafy

#94. Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.

Philip Pullman

#95. We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Atifete Jahjaga

#96. Time is God's given asset to humans

Sunday Adelaja

#97. God has given us peace in our pain. He covers us all the time. Even when we are out of control, he is still there.

Max Lucado

#98. Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life

Sunday Adelaja

#99. I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

John Bunyan

#100. The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Jean De La Bruyere