Time Quotes
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
Tags: Able, Neither ✍ Author: William AdamsSo that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
Tags: Between, Days ✍ Author: William AdamsI hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
Tags: Hate, Times ✍ Author: Henry AddingtonShooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
Tags: Else, Stuff ✍ Author: Mark AddyA friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
Tags: Friend, May ✍ Author: George AdeThe time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
Tags: Enjoy, Travel ✍ Author: George AdeIt is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
Tags: Laughter, Morning ✍ Author: George AdeIf I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.
Tags: Happy, Love ✍ Author: AdeleIn five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
Tags: Family, Rather ✍ Author: AdeleIt's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
Tags: Diet, Happy ✍ Author: AdelePerhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
Tags: Real, Women ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhile writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
Tags: Sun, Writing ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
Tags: Between, Nigeria ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
Tags: Consider, Spends ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.
Tags: School, Woman ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.
Tags: America, Home ✍ Author: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
Tags: Actually, Sit ✍ Author: Kate AdieI was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Tags: Marriage, Teacher ✍ Author: Kate AdieAt a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
Tags: Great, Society ✍ Author: Aravind AdigaOne is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
Tags: Ready, Success ✍ Author: Isabelle AdjaniFOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Tags: Good, Legal ✍ Author: Felix AdlerPerhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
Tags: Evening, Political ✍ Author: Felix AdlerYou have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Tags: Mind, Order ✍ Author: Mortimer AdlerAsk others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Tags: Others, Yourself ✍ Author: Mortimer AdlerIdle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Tags: Great, Sleep ✍ Author: Renata AdlerVisit partners pages
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
Tags: Social, Spiritual ✍ Author: Stella AdlerI'm not angry with Axl anymore. I love him and I feel blessed that I got to work with him and achieve what I achieved with him. I guess time does heal all wounds.
Tags: Love, Work ✍ Author: Steven AdlerSlash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.
Tags: Fight, Love ✍ Author: Steven AdlerI just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.
Tags: Feeling, Tired ✍ Author: Steven AdlerYou figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
Tags: Crazy, Hold ✍ Author: Steven AdlerIn his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Tags: Individual, State ✍ Author: Theodor AdornoIf time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Tags: Money, Others ✍ Author: Theodor AdornoThe man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Tags: Tomorrow, Waiting ✍ Author: Theodor AdornoRisk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Tags: Failure, Risk ✍ Author: Ferran AdriaAll I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.
Tags: Creativity, Fun ✍ Author: Freddy AduWhen 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.
Tags: Creative, Moving ✍ Author: Freddy AduI don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.
Tags: Become, Wait ✍ Author: Freddy AduThe anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
Tags: Anxiety, Late ✍ Author: Sade AduI'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
Tags: Rather, Spend ✍ Author: Sade AduI've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
Tags: Perception, Real ✍ Author: Sade AduIn Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
Tags: General, History ✍ Author: Sade AduSince that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.
Tags: Country, Everyone ✍ Author: Sade AduThere also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
Tags: Disasters, Natural ✍ Author: Sade AduWho, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Tags: Forever, Pain ✍ Author: Sade AduIt was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
Tags: Gun, Work ✍ Author: Ben AffleckWhen I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
Tags: Job, Laugh ✍ Author: Ben AffleckAll I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
Tags: Try, Work ✍ Author: Ben AffleckI love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.
Tags: Love, Thinking ✍ Author: Casey AffleckYes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
Tags: Her, Life ✍ Author: Andre AgassiNothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Tags: Hard, Work ✍ Author: Andre AgassiSome moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.
Tags: Done, Strong ✍ Author: Andre AgassiNew Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Tags: Year ✍ Author: James AgateMy father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
Tags: Home, Mother ✍ Author: Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeWe are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
Tags: Child, Talking ✍ Author: James AgeeThe beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.
Tags: Father, Judge ✍ Author: Shmuel Yosef AgnonMy first love was singing and I had no time for boys.
Tags: Love, Singing ✍ Author: Christina AguileraI really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
Tags: Respect, Rock ✍ Author: Christina AguileraI don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.
Tags: Times, Woman ✍ Author: Christina AguileraIt's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.
Tags: Nurture, Spouse ✍ Author: Christina AguileraI'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
Tags: Happy, Writing ✍ Author: Cecelia AhernOur enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
Tags: Wait, Wish ✍ Author: Mahmoud AhmadinejadWith some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album you can totally hear they're trying to write a song for 'Grey's Anatomy' and it doesn't work. It's just one of those things that has to feel genuine to last a long time.
Tags: Trying, Work ✍ Author: Priscilla AhnThe greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
Tags: Fall, Greatest ✍ Author: Clay AikenThe desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Tags: Human, Science ✍ Author: Howard AikenI always say the person who taught me how to sing indirectly because I listened to her all the time was Brandy. I fell in love with her voice when I was six years old. I always loved Brandy.
Tags: Love, Old ✍ Author: Jhene AikoObama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
Tags: Life, Money ✍ Author: Roger AilesThe creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Tags: Creative, Off ✍ Author: Alvin AileyWe still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
Tags: Creative, Work ✍ Author: Alvin AileyI come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
Tags: Learned, Pretty ✍ Author: Bob AinsworthIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Tags: Brainy, Experience ✍ Author: Ansel AdamsThe greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Tags: Dreams, Greatest ✍ Author: Muhammad AliTime is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Tags: Nature, Once ✍ Author: Woody AllenMost of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Tags: Fun, Rest ✍ Author: Woody AllenA man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Tags: Feeling, Women ✍ Author: Woody AllenIn order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Tags: Experience, Spiritual ✍ Author: Woody AllenIf you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Tags: Good, Yourself ✍ Author: Woody AllenLove is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Tags: Happen, Love ✍ Author: Maya AngelouWhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Tags: Shows, Someone ✍ Author: Maya AngelouIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Tags: Beauty, Strength ✍ Author: Maya AngelouIt is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Tags: Deeds, Mind ✍ Author: Maya AngelouFor one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Tags: Blessed, Happy ✍ Author: Maya AngelouWe praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Tags: Angry, Moment ✍ Author: Maya AngelouBut if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Tags: Change, Mind ✍ Author: Maya AngelouWhether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Tags: May, Someone ✍ Author: Maya AngelouAnybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Tags: Anger, Power ✍ Author: Maya AngelouPortland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
Tags: Path, Weather ✍ Author: Lance ArmstrongThe one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
Tags: Travel, Work ✍ Author: Neil ArmstrongNo matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Tags: Busy, Matter ✍ Author: Mary Kay AshMeanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Tags: Disaster, Universal ✍ Author: Isaac Asimov