Top 38 Thief Of Time Quotes
#1. Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
(in Thief of Time)
Terry Pratchett
#3. If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.
Julianna Baggott
#4. Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene
Edward Young
#5. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Charles Dickens
#6. Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours
Kate Atkinson
#8. 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
#9. The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.
Richard Paul Evans
#10. Her hand slid beneath his shirt with all the practiced grace of a thief. But this time she wanted him to feel her touch, her palms gliding over his ribs and around his back, fingertips digging into her shoulder blades.
V.E Schwab
#11. I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman
#12. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.
Audrey Niffenegger
#14. For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept
Sigmund Brouwer
#16. We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#17. We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.
Clive Barker
#19. I could flee to the heath. Show them that they cannot keep me locked up, that I am a thief of time and will steal the hours denied to me!
Hannah Kent
#20. Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.
John William Draper
#21. Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.
Clive Cussler
#23. Please keep your children at your side. Unattended children will be given a shot of espresso and a puppy.
(petting zoo sign)
Katie MacAlister
#24. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
#25. Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.
Barry Hannah
#26. A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.
Jhoon Goo Rhee
#27. Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.
Leigh Hershkovich
#28. I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
#29. In my stolen photographs
for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make his own tiny eternities
it was this intimacy I sought, hte closeness of the living and the dead.
Salman Rushdie
#30. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
John Milton
#31. Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#33. Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.
Thomas S. Monson
#34. I love you," he whispered as he thrust again. And again. Each movement controlled. Each small movement devastating in its effect. "I love you."
She lost all concept of time. She lost her place and surroundings. She couldn't remember who he was - who she was. She lost her mind.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#35. Time's the thief of memory: that one he knew.
Stephen King
#36. Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.
Patrick Taylor
#38. Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.
Sara Teasdale
