Quotes about time
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“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

Source: Speeches And Letters Of Abraham Lincoln, 1832 1865

Quoted by Maya Angelou (quote reproduced in James L. Conyers, Andrew P. Smallwood, Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, Carolina Academic Press, 2008, p. 181 and Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli, Maya Angelou: More than a poet, Enslow Publishers, 1996, p. 90)
Attributed

Acknowledgements
Twain does not quote Herodotus here, he only sums up what he believes to have been Herodotus' approach to the writing of history. Nevertheless, this apocryphal statement is now often quoted as being the very words of Herodotus.
A Horse's Tale (1907)

“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
Source: Norwegian Wood

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Source: The Turning Point (1982), p. 82.
Source: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Context: At the subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty at definite places, but rather shows "tendencies to exist," and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show "tendencies to occur."

“Punctuality is the thief of time”
Variant: Punctuality is the thief of time.

“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.”
Source: First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go”
Source: Man and Boy

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)

Time (17 May 1976); Reagan adviser Jude Wanniski has indicated http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/10-05-99.html that, in 1933, New Dealers as well as much of the world admired Mussolini’s success in avoiding the Great Depression
1970s

“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”

“When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)


“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia

“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”
Source: Ready Player One


“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

Source: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
"Of Power and Time"
Blue Pastures (1995)

Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

“Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Context: If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”
Source: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

“Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
Source: Journal of a Solitude

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”
The Star Diaries (1976)

“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“In truth, how much time do any of us really have?”
Source: Telling Christina Goodbye
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”