Top 100 Own Time Quotes
#1. Admittedly, there is always a golden age, the one not ours, the one that once was or will someday be. One's own time is never satisfactory, except to the very rich or the smugly oblivious.
Cynthia Ozick
#2. I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
Johann Rupert
#3. There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.
Madeleine L'Engle
#4. Unless we are complete ingrates, the lives of all those men that preceded us should be seen as sacred. Their collective existence paved the way for our own time on Earth. Because
Seneca.
#5. he gained a real pleasure in befriending a man whom he privately had cause to despise, for he liked very much the feeling that his regard for others was a private font, a well, that he could muddy, or drink from, at his own discreet pleasure, and on his own time.
Eleanor Catton
#6. Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.
Muhammad Yunus
#7. I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
Alan Bates
#8. Besides, there was a dignity to doing things in your own time.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#10. Let the day
reveal itself to me
in its own time,
in its own way.
I am yours, Today.
I am yours
Lisa Schroeder
#11. God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.
Robert Herrick
#12. People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs
Tom Rachman
#13. She wanted her own time her own life her own set of eyes.
Jasmine Sandozz
#14. The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.
Asger Jorn
#15. The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.
Ramana Maharshi
#16. If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their time, then it makes sense to engage with the artists of one's own time.
Michael Hersch
#17. Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
Edmund Burke
#18. There is no timetable for grief," said Bronwen Morgan. "Grief isn't a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief's time is beyond time, and time itself ... isn't very important.
Susan Howatch
#19. Be of good cheer, your visions will be fulfilled in their own time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
Elijah Cummings
#21. Give to you; and if I have chosen my own time and way for handing it over, you can hardly blame me, considering the trouble I had to find you. Your father could not remember his own name when he gave me the paper, and he never told me yours; so on the whole I think I ought
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. No matter how much you nourish, the flower blossoms in its own time. Just like people.
Sarvesh Jain
#23. You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
William Landay
#24. God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.
Elif Shafak
#25. How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
Tavis Smiley
#26. There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.
Garth Brooks
#27. I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
Francis Ford Coppola
#28. Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.
Anne Clark
#29. Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.
Henry Van Dyke
#30. Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
Bob Brown
#31. The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
Abraham Cowley
#32. I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they're finished they can look at the picture that they've managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.
Carrie Fisher
#34. I confess that I was filled with curiosity, but I was aware that Holmes liked to make his disclosures at his own time and in his own way,
Arthur Conan Doyle
#35. For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
Theodore White
#36. It's my own space, my own time, when I'm just out there letting my thoughts go. It's part of my day like eating, and it's one of my favorite parts.
Louise Andrews Kent
#37. No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind does not belong to you.
Seneca.
#38. Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments?
Sorin Cerin
#39. Massa Jesus take care of it in His own time, His own way.
Lynn Austin
#40. A learned man said: The learned men are the lights of the ages. Each is a light in his own time giving light to the people of his time.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#41. But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.
Cathy Lamb
#42. He loves us. On our own terms. He treats us as equals to the men around him; he listens; he does not belittle; he honors us; he challenges us; he teaches us; he includes us - calls us all beloved. Gloriously, this flies in the face of the cultural expectations of his time - and even our own time.
Sarah Bessey
#43. I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
Samantha Hunt
#44. You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. You can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest you, challenge you, and make life worth living, getting an education can be blissful and stimulating.
Kate Bornstein
#46. When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy.
Max Brooks
#47. Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone ... We've nourished nothing of our own.
Steve Maraboli
#48. You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
Samuel Johnson
#49. Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.
Clare Vanderpool
#50. The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.
Joe Rogan
#51. We all belong to Him, from the cradle to the grave, whether we know it or not. And He'll see justice done in His own time and in His own way. Now if we trust in Him, that's all we have to think about. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just saying it's what I think we're go do.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#52. I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.
Jimi Hendrix
#53. But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
Ray Bradbury
#54. God has made everything beautiful for its own time. - Ecclesiastes 3:11
Gary Chapman
#55. Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret Atwood
#56. Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.
Eudora Welty
#57. Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
Zachary Quinto
#58. My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.
Kimbra
#59. It's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#60. My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
Katrina Kaif
#61. My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
Andy Rooney
#62. I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.
Debra Winger
#63. We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.
Eileen Gray
#64. Marx's critique of free markets and free trade can shed as much devastating light on our own actually existing capitalism as it did for the capitalism of Marx's own time and place.
David Harvey
#65. In his own time and in his own way, the Lord will bring about his miracles.
Neil L. Andersen
#66. We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.
William J. Clinton
#67. You can't force them [objectmemories] to flower either. Like bulbs, they show their secrets in their own time.
Anna Smaill
#68. TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
Landon Liboiron
#69. Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.
Henning Mankell
#70. Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.
H. L. Balcomb
#71. We are nearly powerless in our own time, and with our skills, but power will come to future generations, power to harm and to heal. Our task is to observe and record with absolute honesty, to provide fertile soil for the healing power to grow uncorrupted.
Timothy Cook
#72. I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
Billie Jean King
#73. Go get a job. Whether it's working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it's a reality of life. In the end it's going to be helpful to you and so many others.
Anna Wintour
#74. When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.
George Boas
#75. Closing up a wound that's not ready will only poison the whole body. Wounds have to heal in their own time. They have to breathe.
Heather Burch
#76. Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
Dean Koontz
#77. Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very
few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on
your own time.
Charles J. Sykes
#78. I kill in my own time," he said. "In any case, killing unconscious people isn't right."
"I can't think of a more opportune time," said the Loremaster.
Terry Pratchett
#79. It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
T. S. Eliot
#80. Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.
Donald Phillip Verene
#81. Down here in the pain, I don't have to know. I just note the question and move on. Answers are rare and come in their own time but hangovers are reliable and never in short supply.
Richard Kadrey
#82. Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
Vincent De Paul
#83. The structure of a 'writing schedule' is only there as a frame. You provide the image, the emotion, and the sentiment in your own time.
Margaret Aranda
#84. Ifemelu was looking forward to being away from home, to the independence of owning her own time.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#86. It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
Beck
#87. Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.
Maya Lin
#88. We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.
Michele Bachmann
#89. In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall
#90. The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#91. Hey Mason, wipe that drool off you face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time. -Rose to Mason
Richelle Mead
#92. In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met.
Ian Fleming
#93. When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
#94. He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
Eddie Campbell
#95. He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Friedrich Schiller
#96. I know you better than you think, Leonidis, and under no circumstances are you allowed to try to fix this. I think you may be right. I think it may be time to tell them the truth, but in my own time, okay?" God licked Day's parted lips. "Okay," Day whispered. "Also" -
A.E. Via
#97. I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?
Rick Perlstein
#98. Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.
Diane Ackerman
#99. When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil. And I will not demand the exact spot, but let it be within this country Horace and I have spent the years roaming contentedly.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#100. My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Leslie Fiedler
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