Time Quotes - Page 138

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn’t play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

I traveled into the future to get back in time.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.