Quotations about

Time

Time will teach more than all our thoughts.

—Benjamin Disraeli

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.

—Ellen DeGeneres

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

—Charles Lamb

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

—Henry Moore

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

—Bill Gates

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.

—Cecelia Ahern in The Book of Tomorrow

When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it’s usually too late, we’ve used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It’s hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

—Tom Robbins

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

—Albert Einstein

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

—George Santayana

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

—John Lithgow

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

—James Agee

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

—George Carlin

It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

—Rose Kennedy

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

—Robert Byrne