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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
— Edith Head
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
— Mary Schmich
We must use time creatively.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
— Olivier Theyskens
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
— Octavio Paz
I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
— James A. Baldwin
We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
— Eamon de Valera
There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
— Dalton McGuinty
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
— John C. Maxwell
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
— Tony Snow
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.
— Lil Wayne
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
— George Washington
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
— Thomas Sowell
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
— Norman Cousins
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.
— Morgan Freeman
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
— Bruce Lipton
You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
— Kyle Massey
If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
— Patrick Lencioni
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
— Kurt Cobain
Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
— Carolyn Chute
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
— Martha Reeves
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
— Emily Greene Balch
We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
— Martin Heidegger
Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.
— Jon Huntsman, Sr.
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
— Martin Heidegger
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
— Paulo Coelho
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
— Sylvia Earle
The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.
— Sheri Fink
I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
— Francis Ford Coppola
My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.
— Ray William Johnson
There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too!
— Pom Klementieff
To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
— Franka Potente
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
— Peter Drucker
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
— Charles M. Schulz
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
— Nikola Tesla
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
— Thomas Jefferson
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
— Charles M. Schulz
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
— Napoleon Hill
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
— Elie Wiesel
I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.
— Cobi Jones
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.
— John Battelle
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
— Ralph Ransom
Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.
— Ray Comfort
You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.
— Eliot Schrefer
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.
— Grimes
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
— Nas
I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward.
— Patty Murray
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
— Socrates
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
— Richard Cecil
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
— Monica Bellucci
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
— Haile Gebrselassie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
— Dale Carnegie
I try to look cute all the time.
— Sloane Stephens
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
— James A. Baldwin
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
— Zig Ziglar
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
— Epictetus
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
— Steve Jobs
I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.
— Ginger Rogers
I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I'm respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I'm really looking forward.
— Donald Bren
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
— Ben Hecht
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
— John Wanamaker
For time is the longest distance between two places.
— Tennessee Williams
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
— Dan Quayle
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
— Nat Turner
I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
— Samantha Mumba
I'm just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they're around me.
— Travis Scott
Time is the least thing we have of.
— Ernest Hemingway
You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.
— Ray Lewis
The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
— Aaron Rodgers
Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.
— DMX
Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.
— Alexandra Adornetto
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
— Roberto Clemente
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
— Samuel Gompers
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
— Ray Kroc
'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.
— Anthony Hamilton
I just love to see people having a good time.
— Garth Brooks
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
— James A. Baldwin
The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.
— Gordon Ramsay
Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
— Matthew McConaughey
It's always good to see the world; always good to see new places. When I'm sitting at home, one of the great things is when my daughter and I watch TV, and when she sees or hears about a place for the first time, I tell her, 'Daddy's been there!'
— Roman Reigns
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
— Tom Clancy
The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.
— Frank Abagnale
I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.
— John Lasseter
'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.
— Jesse Plemons
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
— Thomas Carlyle
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
— Deepak Chopra
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.
— Freddy Adu
It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.
— Robbie Coltraine
I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
— Nas
There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time.
— Shah Rukh Khan
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
— T. S. Eliot
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.
— Bo Bennett
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
— Evan Davis
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.
— David Lynch
Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
— Serena Williams
For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'
— Lauren Graham
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
— Tom Petty
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
— Ed Sullivan
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
— Bob Nelson
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
— Barack Obama
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
— Diane Lane
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
— Theodore Zeldin
You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
— Patch Adams
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
— Stephen King
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.
— Donald Trump
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend.
— Donald Driver
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
— Warren Buffett
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
— Warren Buffett
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
— Jairam Ramesh
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
— Larry Page
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
— Andy Stanley
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
— Taylor Swift
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.
— Peter Benchley
Time passes irrevocably.
— Virgil
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
— Cecil Rhodes
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
— Finley Peter Dunne
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
— Thomas Merton
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
— Hugh Hefner
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
— William Butler Yeats
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
— Rene Daumal
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.
— Steve Gleason
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
— Bill Maher
Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'
— Sean Covey
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
— Justin Bieber
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
— W. Clement Stone
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
— E. O. Wilson
The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
— Henrik Ibsen
I believe time wounds all heels.
— John Lennon
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
— Bruce Springsteen
Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.
— Pawan Kalyan
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
— Rene Descartes
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
— Friedrich Schiller
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
— Chanakya
It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag.
— Colin Kaepernick
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.
— Tom Wilson
I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.
— Jamie Redknapp
I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that eccentric in real life - and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people's faces.
— KSI
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
— Marie Dressler
I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.
— Nikki Reed
I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.
— Prince Royce
I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
— Naveen Jain
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
— Tony Robbins
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
— Vladimir Lenin
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Time flies never to be recalled.
— Virgil
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.
— Rosa Parks
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
— Ram Dass
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
— Hunter S. Thompson
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
— Madeleine Albright
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
— Frederick Douglass
The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
— Carlos Ghosn
The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
— Simon Sinek
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
— Marcus Aurelius
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
— Pericles
In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.
— Alex Steffen
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
— Russell Simmons
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
— Adele
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
— Madeleine Albright
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
— Pele
I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.
— Christian Louboutin
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
— Paul Gauguin
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
— Alice Munro
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
— Wendell Berry
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
— Paul Nurse
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
— Claude Shannon
A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
— Queen Latifah
I can be a goofball sometimes. I love having a good time and being carefree.
— Spencer Boldman
All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
— Nat Turner
Friends are thieves of time.
— Francis Bacon
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.
— Willard Boyle
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
— Audrey Hepburn
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
— Thomas Jefferson
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
— Viktor E. Frankl
I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
— Nathaniel Buzolic
Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.
— Ren Ng
My guiding principle and motivation was that I wanted to retire by the time I turned 35. There actually are two books that I bought and still have - Paul Terhost's 'Cashing In On the American Dream: How to Retire at 35' and Andrew Tobias's 'The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need' - that were my personal financial road map.
— Mark Cuban
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
— Voltaire
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
— Henry David Thoreau
I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
— Wyclef Jean
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.
— David Attenborough
Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.
— Robert Griffin III
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
— John Oliver
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
— Golda Meir
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
— Giordano Bruno
The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past you just know what his plans are.
— The Weeknd
Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
— James Humes
But time growing old teaches all things.
— Aeschylus
Time is flying never to return.
— Virgil
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
— John Dyer
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
— Charlie Sheen
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.
— Jo Nesbo
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
— Bill Murray
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
— John F. Kennedy
No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
— Junior Seau
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
— bell hooks
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
— George Whitefield
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
— Don Zimmer
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
— Zig Ziglar
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
— Henry Cloud
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
— Bill Gates
We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.
— John Hurt
Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
— Nancy Lopez
Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.
— Harvey Mackay
We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.
— Kelly Rowland
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
— Sherry Argov
Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain.
— Mohammed VI of Morocco
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
— George S. Patton
America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
— Thomas Wolfe
I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.
— Kim Cattrall
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
— Marcus Aurelius
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
— Henry Ford
Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
— Anderson Cooper
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
— Bradley Whitford
There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
— James Dyson
I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.
— Jill Wagner
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
— Albert Einstein
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
— C. S. Lewis
The past cannot be cured.
— Elizabeth I
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
— Francoise Sagan
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
— James M. Barrie
Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Time, the devourer of all things.
— Ovid
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
— Saint Augustine
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
— Tillie Olsen
I confess, I do not believe in time.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
— Samuel Smiles
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
— Ivan Turgenev
There's time enough, but none to spare.
— Charles W. Chesnutt
When in doubt, take more time.
— John Zimmerman
True time is four-dimensional.
— Martin Heidegger
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
— Adam Hochschild
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
— Thomas Merton
Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.
— Marla Gibbs
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
— Henry Rollins
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.
— Darell Hammond
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
— Edmund Hillary
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.
— Terry Teachout
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.
— Norodom Sihanouk
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
— Eddie Van Halen
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
— Gary Zukav
Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.
— Ben Huh
In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.
— Michio Kaku
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
— Zig Ziglar
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
— Joanna Lumley
I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.
— Debbie Ford
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
— Herbert Hoover
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
— Stephen King
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
— Simeon Strunsky
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
— Ken Kesey
The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.
— John C. Maxwell
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
— Sylvia Plath
There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate.
— Cory Booker
Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from absolutely everything. Look at him in the eyes - get to know your baby. Sitting there as you watch TV is not quality time to me.
— Sandra Echeverria
The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter together than they would be apart. They don't take a vote; they don't take a poll: they form a system. They are all interactive and make a decision together in real time.
— Louis B. Rosenberg
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
— George Orwell
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
— Samuel Johnson
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
— William Irwin Thompson
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
— Charles Babbage
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
— Brian Tracy
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
— Janis Joplin
I am having a good time doing nothing.
— Phylicia Rashad
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
— Marcel Proust
The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.
— Tom Hardy
The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.
— Ai Weiwei
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
— Karen Armstrong
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
— Benjamin Banneker
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
— Steve Wozniak
The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.
— Sophia Amoruso