Time Quotes

Time and I against any two.

Proverb

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

Ronald Reagan

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

George Herbert

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

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

Bobby Knight

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

Rick Barry

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Stephen Covey

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

Harvey Fierstein

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

Steven Wright

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Orson Scott Card

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Christopher Hitchens

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Leo Tolstoy

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

Steven Wright

. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Albert Camus

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Faith Baldwin

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

Ted Nugent