Time It Quotes

#1. Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

David Cameron

#2. The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

Garrett Hardin

#3. Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

Nigel Godrich

#4. When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

Donna Summer

#5. When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.

Robert Greene

#6. The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

Jeff VanderMeer

#7. And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain and driving under an overpass, and for just that second there is a profound, powerful sense of reprieve- the utter silence of non-rain.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#8. So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.

Shelby Harris

#9. Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Julia Glass

#10. Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.

Robert Holden

#11. I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.

LaVell Edwards

#13. Make good use of your time, it flies fast.

Ovid

#14. Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

Matthew Hale

#15. I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.

Adam Levine

#16. But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.

Amulya Malladi

#17. New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

Susan Sarandon

#18. In our own time it has been seen ... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Giorgio Vasari

#19. Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.

Dave Barry

#20. What set's us apart can sometimes feel like a burden. and it's not. alot of the time , it's what makes you great.

Emma Stone

#21. We disparage reason.
But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.
There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.
Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

Robert Frost

#22. Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

Jane Yolen

#23. It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Meg Ryan

#24. It's nice to see how the suffering goes away in time. It always does

Kathrin Schmidt

#25. Other than this, the room was entirely still, as if such a grand clock had stolen even the time it took for a dustmote to float across a sunbeam, needing every minute, every second it could find.

Emma Trevayne

#26. Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.

Sarah Manguso

#27. A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them. Look at her own daughters. Keffria, who only wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Althea, who only desired that she do her own will always."
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Robin Hobb

#28. I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

J. Maarten Troost

#29. A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

Bertolt Brecht

#30. Relationships are as much a work of art as a drawing. It takes time. It takes a lot of erasing, smudging, and redoing. In the end, it's usually worth it. Sometimes, it's not.

R.K. Ryals

#31. On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate
Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.

Justin Halpern

#32. Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.

Debasish Mridha

#33. I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

Lykke Li

#34. I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.

Reggie Bush

#35. Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

William Gurnall

#36. I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

Julie Walters

#37. Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

Marlene Dumas

#38. Something was going on. Something big, like the dreams that brought her sisters together. But this time, it wasn't a theater bringing them together. It was a killer tearing them apart.

Lisa Kessler

#39. All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

Mickey Rourke

#40. If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

Herbert Gold

#41. People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

Don DeLillo

#42. Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#43. Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

Gretchen Rubin

#44. 'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

Wesley Morris

#45. From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

Julian Baggini

#46. Who would win in a fight? The past or the future? The past. Every time. It was relentless.

Megan Miranda

#47. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Leo Tolstoy

#48. A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ...

Dorothy Bryant

#49. When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.

Fred Lebow

#50. Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

Keanu Reeves

#51. Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

Tina Fey

#52. I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.

Russell Brand

#53. Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#54. Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

James Frey

#55. What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Roy Ayers

#56. I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine.

Donna Lynn Hope

#57. I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.

Benjamin Percy

#58. When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

Laurell K. Hamilton

#59. Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

Jim MacLaren

#60. Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

Chris Evans

#61. I can not stop despair but I can stand up & speak truthfully against it to make it uncomfortable every time it knocks on my door!
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#62. Since you left there's been a you-shaped space beside me, all the time. It never goes away.

Marisa De Los Santos

#63. Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Thornton Wilder

#64. People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Adam Ant

#65. I was in Studio 54 one time; it was great. But I'm not a discotheque guy. Sometimes, if I had a new demo, I went to some discotheques to check it out - see how the reactions of the people were. But just to dance, I rarely did that.

Giorgio Moroder

#66. For you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let's enjoy this time. It's marvelous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#67. Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

Marlene Dietrich

#68. When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot.

Phillip Gwynne

#69. As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.

Keith B. McMullin

#70. The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe

#71. We need to make a change while there's still time, it is hard, and at times I struggle trying to reveal mine.

Hopsin

#72. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Woolf

#73. It's like when a kitten tries to bite something to death. The kitten clearly has the cold-blooded murderous instinct of a predator, but at the same time, it's this cute little kitten, and all you want to do is stuff it in a shoebox and shoot a video of it for grandmas to watch on YouTube.

Jesse Andrews

#74. [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

Queen Elizabeth II

#75. I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

Steve Earle

#76. Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

John Wagner

#77. Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

Bo Bennett

#78. Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#79. Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

Yasmina Reza

#80. Everytime I ask what time it is, I get a different answer.

Henny Youngman

#81. For the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Blaise Pascal

#82. It is not good to do too much at once. We have a saying. A man cannot walk on two different paths at the same time. It will crack his buttocks.
Tajewo Ole Ndaskoi

Suzanne Arruda

#83. I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.

Katherine Jenkins

#84. The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

William John Wills

#85. Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

Oriana Fallaci

#86. Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Barry Goldwater

#87. The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Gore Vidal

#88. Often I had to explain my reasoning to others. Every time it was exhausting to simplify my logic enough to make it understandable.

Estelle Ryan

#89. My God, every time, it never fails. You happen to me all over again. I never stopped loving you, Lay. You were always with me. Everywhere.

T. Torrest

#90. I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#91. At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#92. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#93. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

#94. See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try to retaliate.

CM Punk

#95. Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Zadie Smith

#96. And what am I? (Adron)
You're kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia)
I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#97. If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

Gary Cole

#98. The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

Peggy Fleming

#99. The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Silvio Berlusconi

#100. You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

Jhumpa Lahiri