Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.
'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons of light would interact with an atom all at the same time.
I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.
We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.
When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
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A few quotes look further back, considering time on a generational scale rather than a daily one. For nearby reading in Hindi, see Anmol Vachan or Suvichar on this same theme.
