Top 100 Other Time Quotes
#1. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.
Mike Yankoski
#2. It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.
Polly Horvath
#3. ... at four o'clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks.
Robin McKinley
#4. Suppose she denied him then but favored him some other time? Women are weak and easily conquered by flattery. Especially when men write verses to them, and there are some who sat that Wyatt writes better verses than me, though I am the King.
Hilary Mantel
#5. This other time, Attikol had the streets of San Francisco rearranged just so this lady's favorite show The Streets of San Francisco would be more accurate.
Rob Reger
#6. I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.
Tina Fey
#7. How was I supposed to tell him how he affected me and how that any other time before this moment meant absolutely nothing, because none of those moments were with him?
Peggy Martinez
#8. The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
Judith Ellen Foster
#9. Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.
Davis Miller
#10. There have been more people saved in the past twenty, thirty, or forty years around the world than at any other time in recorded church history.
Michael Brown
#11. And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.
John Motson
#12. But mostly I wrote letters of gratitude: the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read, but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I'm truly beside myself.
Nora Ephron
#13. It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected together in the bed of the ocean than will exist at any other time on the surface of the continents.
Charles Lyell
#14. I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.
Ralph Moody
#15. I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to be able to have that clarity of experience that changes us, so that we know who we are now because of who we have been at some other time.
Colum McCann
#16. My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.
DJ Shadow
#17. Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.
Karin Fossum
#18. A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.
Sei Shonagon
#19. Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.
Shana Alexander
#20. Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.
Mark Twain
#21. There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.
Osho
#22. Don't be lazy. Hard work brings happiness. There is no other time to avoid being a lazy. Take that decision now. Kick laziness out.
Israelmore Ayivor
#23. I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
Petrarch
#24. Living in any other time than the present and living on anyone else's terms but your own is a categorical waste of a human life.
Gregor Collins
#25. There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?
Rush Limbaugh
#26. Some say it rings by its own will, that if one arrives in Venice to its great, noble clanging, it is proof of one's Venetian soul, proof the old bell remembers one from some other time.
Marlena De Blasi
#27. At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#28. We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.
Robert Winston
#29. The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.
George Orwell
#30. More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
#31. As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'
Robin Marantz Henig
#32. Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history.
Thomas Sadoski
#33. We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
John Dewey
#34. I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
Harry S. Dent
#35. One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#36. Suppressing the symptom does nothing but force the true problem to express itself on a deeper level at some other time.
Garth Stein
#37. The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean out of his mind, so that neither then nor at any other time could he remember it, nor ever understand again why one should quarrel with an animal for having more legs or eyes than oneself.
C.S. Lewis
#38. If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
Abdu'l- Baha
#39. In the hour before a thunderstorm, the color of the forest deepens: the pine needles take on a dense vibrant greenness they possess at no other time, the slender trunks go black, and the leaden sky above sinks lower by the minute.
Michael McDowell
#40. From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#41. Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
Dan Harmon
#42. I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.
Erin Morgenstern
#43. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
#44. I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.
Junot Diaz
#45. Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.
Ann Leckie
#46. A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
Douglas William Jerrold
#47. We would have met again some other time or in some other place,' he said. 'We would have been given other chances. Life recognizes the unpredictability of our movements in any given life. Somehow we would have met, Jane. We were determined that it would be so before we entered this life.
Mary Balogh
#48. The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.
Louis XIV
#49. The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
Alvin Plantinga
#50. I should have been sorry for her, at any other time; but for now if they had laid her and ten more ladies like her down upon the floor and told me my way out was across their backs, I'd have run it with clogs on.
Sarah Waters
#51. He shuffled through the list of messages, prioritizing them into three piles: now, later, and some other time.
Kenneth Eade
#52. When the rose's flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it's no use to beckon or say, "So long"
Maybe I'll tell you then
some other time.
Carl Sandburg
#53. Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
#54. The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.
Mike Weir
#55. She could do things when her body was busy that she could at no other time, things like assemble her worries into ranks, each rank commanded by a hope.
John Crowley
#56. I never saw his wife, not then, nor at any other time. I do not know what color her hair was.
Neil Gaiman
#57. The state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book
is one of the main reasons I read;
but it doesn't happen every time
or even every other time,
and when it does happen,
I am truly beside myself.
Nora Ephron
#58. Manicured grounds of well-hidden mansions. At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner
Kasey Michaels
#59. I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#60. Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Willa Cather
#61. The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.
Hal Sparks
#62. We are in the days of miracles and wonders that will eventually eclipse those of any other time.
Rick Joyner
#63. Christmas is such a trial,' said Mrs McCosh. 'I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.
Louis De Bernieres
#64. Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
Alan W. Watts
#65. Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
Ben Bernanke
#67. College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
Larisa Oleynik
#68. Don't anybody mention ice skating; Grandmaw is too old and frail and it wouldn't be polite. Hilda, you suggest dominoes and we'll all chime in - Grandmaw likes dominoes. We'll go skating some other time. Okay, kids?" Jubal
Robert A. Heinlein
#69. I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
David Price
#70. We can never live this [Christian] life on the highest plane unless we are continually growing and moving forward. You should be closer to God today in heart, soul, and body than at any other time so far in your life.
Billy Graham
#71. The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!
Alice Cary
#72. At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner of
Kasey Michaels
#73. I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
Carl Sandburg
#74. I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
Brent Scowcroft
#75. So what will happen now?" / "Same thing as happens every other time you've come here," said the old woman. "You go home." / "I don't know where that is anymore," I told them. / "You always say that," said Ginnie.
Neil Gaiman
#76. When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#77. If during this time, or some other time we were separated, I wouldn't forget you. I'd recall how many years have passed knowing you.
Tomoko Yamashita
#78. He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.
Jonas Jonasson
#79. She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.
Toni Morrison
#80. As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.
Thomas Jefferson
#81. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
Patrick Ness
#82. "Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.
Peter Drucker
#83. The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
Wayne Dyer
#84. As far as we could see, the miles of copper red grass were drenched in sunlight that was stronger and fiercer than at any other time of day
Willa Cather
#85. Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
Willie Sutton
#86. A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own.
Torgny Lindgren
#87. A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.
William F. Longgood
#89. The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.
Steven Pinker
#90. The only other time I've seen Paul cry was when he got hit in the teeth with a cricket bat when he was fourteen. And that time Diana made us watch 'Bambi'.
Leanne Hall
#91. When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.
Sarah Dessen
#92. In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.
Chuck Klosterman
#93. True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
Lester B. Pearson
#94. Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.
Freya North
#95. There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
Mike Rounds
#96. I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#97. The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.
Carrie Underwood
#98. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.
Yousuf Karsh
#99. When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.
Robert Pinsky
#100. I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
Samuel Beckett
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