Time Quotes

Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

~ Kajol

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

~ Steve Aoki

I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn't know the answer to fans' questions half the time - and the patience involved! I couldn't imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.

~ Jim Parsons

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

~ Elisha Cuthbert

Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.

~ Gin Wigmore

The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.

~ John Elway

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

~ Elihu Root

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

~ Don Cornelius

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

~ Avi

People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.

~ Carmen Busquets

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

~ Giorgio Napolitano

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

~ Susan Wiggs

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

~ Hart Crane

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

~ Ridley Pearson

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

~ Tecumseh

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

~ Will Rogers

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

~ Leo Buscaglia

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

~ Joel Salatin

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

~ Robert De Niro

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

~ Sean Taylor

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

~ Stewart Alsop

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

~ Bob Dylan

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

~ Klaus Fuchs

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

~ William Penn

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

~ Douglas Macarthur

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

~ Raymond Carver

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

~ Celia Imrie

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

~ Dalai Lama

For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.

~ Jodie Evans

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

~ Bel Powley

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

~ Anna Akhmatova

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

~ George Carlin

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

~ Conor Oberst

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

~ Zig Ziglar

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

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

~ Stanislav Grof

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

~ Bertrand Russell

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

~ Marianne Faithfull