Time Quotes

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.

~ Peter S. Beagle

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

~ Nick Bantock

Most people spend less time outside than prisoners.

~ J.r. Rim

Trying to be like me as a person is not a good idea. To have the same interest, to talk about the same and so on and so on... it's kind time waste!

~ Deyth Banger

Never Waste Your Time, Otherwise one day Time Will Waste or Spoil You.

~ Reaz Uddin

Social networks are so full of wasted time - they could be compared to a waste disposal system. Flush, before you go and waste no time to go.

~ Will Advise

People waste life by wasting time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Life can be a waste by jesting and joking away their time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The world is full of ways and means to waste time

~ Haruki Murakami

You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.”He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

~ Richelle Mead

There are far too many people that waste their time telling themselves that they don’t have enough time.

~ Daniel Willey

Our greatest currency is our time and we cannot save it. Spend it wisely and never waste another's or your own.

~ Kyle Barger

If you don’t wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you’re wasting your time.

~ Harold Eugene Edgerton

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.

~ Zeeshan Ahmed

It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing.

~ Seneca

This realization leads to a different question than that suggested by all these tips on simplifying the holidays. Namely, what are you saving your energy for? This is all there is. Anything could happen and you are not guaranteed another snowman. So make a fuss. Make a show. Spend your energy now.

~ Laura Vanderkam

We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.

~ Peter Høeg

There are a few things I've learned over the years. One is that time doesn't stop for anyone; hurdling forward and onward, unstoppable and catastrophic.

~ Shawn Michael Severud

A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Spending time and energy on pleasing others is like a hole in a balloon; soon all the air is gone and all that’s left is a shell. HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

Time is a universal regressor, time will prove everything

~ Totok R. Biyanto

Perhaps people who don't value other people's time are actually reflecting a misunderstanding they have themselves, that of not giving appropriate value to their own time.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Time is conscience of the universe.

~ Raheel Farooq

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

~ Ruth Ozeki

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

~ Dennis Potter

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

~ Ian Fleming

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

~ Paulo Coelho

No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.

~ Kaza Kingsley

We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.

~ V.c. Andrews

Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

~ Julian Barnes

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

~ Julia Cameron

Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.

~ Christopher Paul Flateau

I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows.

~ James C. Dobson

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

~ Andy Couturier

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

~ Leon Krier

For the next two weeks, the world and all other issues would be omitted. We were two people alone in a hospital room. We allowed no visitors. We had two weeks of near-silence with each other and my increasing helplessness. I tended to tangle the IV and misplace the oxygen tube. As I started to say earlier, I could feel no sensible interest in the future. The moments became extraordinarily dimensionless - not without value but flat and a great deal emptier. When you learn you're fatally ill, time becomes very confusing, perhaps uninteresting, pedestrian. But my not caring if I lived or died hurt Ellen. And I was grateful that I could indulge my cowardice toward death in terms of living for her.

~ Harold Brodkey

Time is quixotic because it can torment us. When we have insufficient stimulus to fill our lives, we resent the relentless quality of time, and we engage in activities designed to “kill time.” Time that passes slowly creates insufferable boredom; time that passes to quickly makes us aware of our accelerated death march. A person’s perspective on time depends mostly on what they are most afraid of, boredom or death.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster