Quotes About Time Waits For No One

#1. Time waits for no one.

Christine Brae

#2. If time waits for no one then let me show you how it does, by smash your watch.

Srinivas Shenoy

#3. Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.
Time waits for no one.
Apologise when you are wrong,
Express your love when you should,
Forgive the ones who wronged you,
And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#5. All the time I've knowed you, Jack, you kept the door to that heart of yers locked up tight an the key hid away. Looks like she found it.
He says nothing. Molly waits. Then:
Keys ain't her style, he says. She kicked the door down.

Moira Young

#6. ~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that.
~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.

Hilary Mantel

#7. The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Alice Morse Earle

#8. True love waits, but not just for sex. It waits for the right time to commit to God's brand of love - unwavering, unflagging, and totally committed.

Joshua Harris

#9. A different toothbrush waits in every time zone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.

Tom Waits

#11. People work around you and next to you and the universe waits for the perfect time to whisper in your ear, "Look this way." There is someone in your life right now who may end up being your enemy, your wife, or your boss. Lift up your head and you may notice.

Amy Poehler

#12. Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Alfred Polgar

#13. You may slowdown, but time will not wait for you.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation.

Kelly Vang

#15. As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Tom Waits

#16. There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas.

Tom Waits

#17. Time never waits for your answers like do you want to continue or not. It continues so be clever, one moment you will wake up in 16, then 26, then 45, then 67 and your whole life it will went like two hours film!

Deyth Banger

#18. He waits a long time. The captain reviews the fingernails

Anthony Doerr

#19. Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.

Lauren Oliver

#20. Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts.

Anthony Liccione

#21. In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Robert Grudin

#22. 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

#23. If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

James Russell Lowell

#24. All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

Tom Waits

#25. We in the 25th hour,
It's now or never.
We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever.
In the end, time waits for no man ...
What's your plan?

Reks

#26. A sleeper just waits and when the time is right, they come out and wow everyone. That's you, kiddo. Don't you worry.

Ronda Rousey

#27. I did my time in the jail of your arms

Tom Waits

#28. I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.

Tom Waits

#29. Time and tide waits for no man, to capture time, treasure every moment in your life and let the time that slowly slips away memorable and worthy to be kept as sweet memories

M.O. Kenyan

#30. I head someone say once that passionate people live violent lives. At the time I didn't really get it but if what they meant was the way love waits in ambush traps your well trained sense of control and tortures you into a confession you'd just as soon not make I now understand.

Jay Kopelman

#31. Somebody waits for the time I know will never come
You get yourself so high
Then you come down feeling blue
One day you'll wake up and realize you've had enough
There's a thousand shining moments
Waiting just to happen to you

Blue Rodeo

#32. The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

Tom Waits

#33. If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

Jim Cymbala

#34. Time Never waits for anyone, Everybody waits for time

Stanly Stephen

#35. Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

Antonio Machado

#36. We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

Plotinus

#37. Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

E.B. White

#38. One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.

James Gleick

#39. Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Jules Renard

#40. Bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks ... you really have to be on your toes all the time.

Tom Waits

#41. Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Mark Twain

#42. Time waits for no ovary.

Gretchen Rubin