Quotes about timing
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“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”

D.T. Suzuki (1870–1966) Japanese author and philosopher

Source: Zen and Japanese Culture

Universe, Time, Tea

“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Life, Books, World, Time

“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

"The Old Way of Thinking" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Old_Way_Thinking.html, in The Progressive (November 2001)

War, Children, Time

“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Girl, Learning, Time, Personality

“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.”

Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now

Variant: After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.
Source: How I Live Now

Time

“Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

Time

“The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.

- Cian MacKeltar”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Spell of the Highlander

Hell, Tear, Time

“Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Decision, Time, Waiting

“They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.”

Philip Plait (1964) astronomer, skeptic

Source: Death from the Skies! (2008), p. 75-76
Source: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...

Life, Feeling, Star, Time

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Declaration at his 85th birthday party (6 January 1963), as quoted in The Best of Ralph McGill : Selected Columns (1980) by Ralph McGill, edited by Michael Strickland, Harry Davis, and Jeff Strickland, p. 82
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
As quoted without source in The School Musician Director and Teacher Vol. 43 (1971) by the American School Band Directors' Association

Life, Time

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”

Gore Vidal book Julian

Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380

Books, World, Time

“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Women, Effort, Time, Baby

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Books, Thinking, Time, Reading

“There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

World, Drink, Time, Gratitude

“Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

Life, School, Memory, Time

“They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Author’s Note (p. 276)
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Children, Time

“The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

Dogs, Way, Thinking, Reality

“In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.”

Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) British evangelist

Life, Time

“Annabeth smiled. “I don’t know the ocean very well, but my boyfriend does. I think it’s time you met Percy.”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

Smile, Thinking, Time

“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Time, Sincerity

“There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Life, Time

“CAN is 100 times more important than IQ”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Time

“Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Time

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

David Foster Wallace book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Bee, Time

“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Love, Time

“Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!”

Julia Child My Life in France

Source: My Life in France

Time

“There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

World, Failure, Time

“He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her… One last time…”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Time

“The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives.”

Louise Penny book The Brutal Telling

Source: The Brutal Telling

Beauty, Nature, Tree, Time

“Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Source: The Matchmaker

Love, Thinking, Time

“Good time cowboy cassanova on a cassanova cowboy cassanova casanova machine”

Austin

Time

“She couldto hisany time.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Time

“You've faced horrors in these past weeks… I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

Source: A Fatal Waltz

Feeling, Time, Past

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

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Happiness, Peace, Smile, Time

“But that is another story and shall be told another time.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

Time

“It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem… Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

Understanding, Problem, Change, Time

“When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist

People, Way, Time, Country

“Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle in the Air

Fate, Time

“… and time becomes a forgotten detail.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Time

“There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.”

James St. James (1966) American writer

People, Time

“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Life, Youth, World, Imagination

“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

Happiness, Time

“Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"
Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."
Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."
Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Time, Parting

“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

To Fanny Brawne (c. February 1820)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: "If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."

Love, Beauty, Time

“Okay, Barrons, it's time."
"I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly.
"Oh please. As if I'd let you.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Time, Help

“You know, I've lived a long time," he told me, massaging my calf more firmly now. "And I met a lot of people. But I ain't never met a woman made me want to beat her to death as often as you.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Death, People, Time

“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Life, Time

“The time has to be right and the heart willing.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Time, Heart

“Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.”

“Why?” she asked.

“Well. I met him,” I said.”

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

Source: Proven Guilty

Guy, Time

“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Life, Time

“I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

People, Time, Loneliness

“Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Time

“I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Tear, Time, Heart

“The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far… The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.”

Fynn (1919–1999) British writer

Source: Mister God, This is Anna

Soul, Star, Light, Time

“I have had a wonderful time but this wasn't it.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Variant: I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Time

“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

H. W. Shaw (Josh Billings), as quoted in Scientific American, Vol. 31 (1874), p. 121, and in dictionaries of quotations such as Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 117 https://archive.org/stream/excellentquotat00hoitgoog/excellentquotat00hoitgoog#page/n138/mode/1up and Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) by Louis Klopsch, p. 266 https://archive.org/stream/manythoughtsman00klopgoog/manythoughtsman00klopgoog#page/n268/mode/1up. <br class="br">Misattributed

Time, Success

“It's been going so well. We have a wonderful time in class, and I can feel the chemistry between you.

- That's because it's chemistry class.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Feeling, Time