Top 67 Time Waits Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.
Lauren Oliver
#4. Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
Lauren Oliver
#5. If time waits for no one then let me show you how it does, by smash your watch.
Srinivas Shenoy
#6. 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. 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
#10. An all time favorite: The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
Tom Waits
#11. Many are hurting for love, while many are suffering from a love that hurts.
Anthony Liccione
#12. Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.
Tom Waits
#13. Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
Ivan Turgenev
#14. Time is fleeting, life is short.
Learn the lessons, you must be taught.
Destiny waits, for those it calls.
The choice is yours, one and all.
SKETA
#15. Love doesn't come with any random man coming in your apartment. It comes with the right person at the right time."
"Geez. You sound like a grandma. What are you going to say next? True love waits?
Shyrill Silversong
#16. Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!
Joyce Meyer
#17. I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
Tom Waits
#18. You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.
John Steinbeck
#20. Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.
Dean Koontz
#21. If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
James Russell Lowell
#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. 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
#24. ~ 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
#25. I don't know what the 'big time' is.
Tom Waits
#26. Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.
Sylvain Reynard
#27. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream. Just as the oak sleeps in the acorn, and the bird waits in the egg, so dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Jeff Wheeler
#28. Time is just memory
Mixed in with Desire.
Tom Waits
#29. I don't think you remember me as well as I remember us
Sapan Saxena
#30. Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.
Tom Waits
#31. The Universe is making music all the time.
Tom Waits
#32. Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast ...
Sam Altman
#33. I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'
Tom Waits
#34. Every day she waits for night-time. She goes to bed at half past eight because that is the earliest time she can imagine going to bed and because that means that the day is officially over and she doesn't have to do anything more about it. About anything.
Ahdaf Soueif
#35. Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
Tom Waits
#36. In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.
Ray Bradbury
#37. Until you have experienced the true love of God, you will continue to accept his or her version of love and call it faith. #ChooseToWin
A.H. Carlisle III
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I did my time in the jail of your arms
Tom Waits
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
Antonio Machado
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard
#53. Bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks ... you really have to be on your toes all the time.
Tom Waits
#54. He waits a long time. The captain reviews the fingernails
Anthony Doerr
#55. I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
Tom Waits
#56. Time Never waits for anyone, Everybody waits for time
Stanly Stephen
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#64. Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation.
Kelly Vang
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
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