Top 100 Time Would Quotes
#1. Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.
Gerad Adams
#2. I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.
Jermaine Jackson
#3. Thus it was quickly decided that Pitry - being young, cheerful, and not in the room at the time - would be the best man for the job.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#4. It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs.
Russell Shorto
#5. It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.
Polly Horvath
#6. Time would be my friend, I told myself.
Yet time, I knew even then, was my enemy.
Robin Maxwell
#7. Time would not change what I was feeling
or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.
Tammara Webber
#8. Was I doing the right thing? Or being stupid for not following Liam's plan? Only time would tell. For now, I had to believe that whatever move kept Liam safe was not only the right solution, but the only solution.
Laura Marie Altom
#9. People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
Octavia E. Butler
#10. It was as if the tide of him had been ebbing from her, but she knew, like a real tide, time would bring him back.
Lauren Groff
#12. 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
#13. No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#14. Neither my mother nor I had acknowledged it at breakfast, as if even the mention of passing time would crack the fragile votive that ensconced us. And now, I would shatter it.
Skye Warren
#15. What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.
Gerry Francis
#16. If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
Francesco Guicciardini
#17. Would be a great comfort to her, and that was in fact exactly why she resisted. She had sensed if she gave in once, just once, the next time would be easy. They
Joe Hill
#18. The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
Alan Rickman
#19. It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.
Nicole Krauss
#20. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to o'erpeer.
William Shakespeare
#21. Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only
Robert Jordan
#22. Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
Pat Conroy
#23. I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Brian Lumley
#24. There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.
Carl Linnaeus
#25. How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
Vera Brittain
#26. It was so wonderful, I wish . . . time would stop.
Naoshi Arakawa
#27. I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
John Vianney
#28. Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.
St. Jerome
#30. Exactly patriotic. My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism." Griezman
Lee Child
#31. You have five minutes," I said. "Of course, because any more time would make this too easy.
John Scalzi
#32. Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.
S.J. Watson
#33. I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
King Hussein
#34. Dogs are joiners; if they were guys, their idea of a good time would be to attend an Elks luncheon ...
Nicole Hollander
#35. He knew time could heal. But it could also do more damage. A forest fire, spread over time, would consume everything.
Louise Penny
#36. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil
#37. she could begin again and not become so entangled in this long, horrible war, would she watch from the sidelines as a spectator this time? Would she choose differently, take fewer risks? Caroline
Austin, Lynn
#38. Time would heal, Mrs. Sussex said. Byron's loss would grow more bearable. But here was the crux. He didn't want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she had never been there. One
Rachel Joyce
#39. jeans; otherwise, her dressing time would have doubled. Next, she shoved her feet into her favorite
Chanda Hahn
#40. Give me a mirror.Or holy water. I'll drink it,even!" I gasped as someone threw water on the side of my face. "A little warning next time would be nice.
Kiersten White
#41. It wasn't that she expected to be known by all the bank's employees; it was just that she had been lovely once, and had never really believed that time would make her faceless.
Denis Johnson
#42. February ... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#43. And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like ...
I don't know, it would feel like home.
Morgan Parker
#44. You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
Warren Buffett
#45. My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.
Randy Castillo
#46. To speak of Jesus as the Messiah or Son of Man of the End-time would have made no sense at all; and, as we have already seen (ch.10), the resurrection of the body was a wholly alien idea.
Alan Robson
#47. People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
Neil Kinnock
#48. I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.
Amin Maalouf
#49. I believed that, if I put a chocolate on the market that was better than anyone else was making, or was likely to make, and keep it absolutely uniform in quality, the time would come when the public would appreciate it and buy it.
Milton S. Hershey
#50. One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
Henry Adams
#51. 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
C.S. Lewis
#52. Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, knew the time would soon come to prove just how much she'd bleed for Erilea.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#54. I wonder if a time would come when he wouldn't leave after spending thirty minutes in a room with me, but I know it isn't me he is running from. It is her.
Ella Frank
#55. I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you
Rudolfo Anaya
#56. If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.
David Niven
#57. I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.
Kate Bosworth
#58. Edmund, Magnus decided, put him in mind of nothing so much as a boat- a shining beautiful thing, buffeted by the whims of the water and winds. Only time would tell if he would find anchor and harbor, or if all that beauty and charm would be reduced to a wreck.
Cassandra Clare
#59. There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then
we remember
and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.
L.M. Montgomery
#60. To live in the moment and in the future at the same time would seem to me to be the trick.
Todd May
#61. For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.
Jessie Matthews
#62. Leisure time would inevitably feel less leisurely,
Anonymous
#63. Having read literally thousands of them, I was sure I knew every which way of killing someone. I never thought a time would come when I would make use of it.
Mary Lou Kirwin
#64. Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
Maria Edgeworth
#65. Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle.
#66. Laser Pointer Q. If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?
Randall Munroe
#67. I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn't be as mature as I am.
Shawn Mendes
#68. Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.
Alastair Reynolds
#69. This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.
Joseph Hall
#70. Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one's thoughts?
Hermann Hesse
#71. A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#72. We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
Erich Maria Remarque
#73. Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria
#74. Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
Elvis Costello
#75. I always knew our first time would be in a carriage. - Sebastian
Colleen Gleason
#76. She wondered, would their relationship gradually turn into something more? ... Time would tell!
Linda Weaver Clarke
#77. If the newspapers reported the truth, if they wrote about the mud and filth and the body parts littering the ground and how young men look old before their time, would we still be here?
M.K. Tod
#78. That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
Paulo Coelho
#79. Time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only with the electric clocks, but the wind-up kind, too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
Kurt Vonnegut
#80. When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
Anthony Minghella
#81. Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?
Robert B. Cialdini
#82. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
Veronica Roth
#83. Sweetheart, I'm telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn't matter if you had thirty years," she tells me. "It wouldn't be enough.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#84. You always think another time would have been ideal for you ... the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.
Woody Allen
#85. As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.
David McCullough
#86. All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.
Stephen King
#87. Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.
Kenny Chesney
#88. Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.
Galileo Galilei
#89. For a moment this good time would never end
You and me
Just wasting time
I was kissing you
You were kissing me love
From good day into a moonlight
Dave Matthews
#90. Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.
Stephen Jay Gould
#91. I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.
Audrey Niffenegger
#92. Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening.
Alan Lightman
#93. Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
Albert Einstein
#94. With so few clothes to choose from, getting dressed was no quarrelsome effort. It was almost an argument for not acquiring more blouses and skirts, jumpers and jackets, else how much time would be lost in dividing and conquering them?
Sarah Jane Stratford
#95. And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you happiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain. My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you're dead inside to me, you're cold and beyond reach!
Anne Rice
#96. We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.
Eleanor Catton
#97. No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#98. I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
William Butler Yeats
#99. Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal ...
Hans Reichenbach
#100. I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and producers were able to weave the different storylines together; and the acting in that show was incredible.
Nick Jonas
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