968 private quotes tagged time

“Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.” — Anderson Cooper

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“I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.” — Lisa See

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“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” — Larry Bird

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“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” — Alexander Smith

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“I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.” — Ralph Ransom

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“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.” — Margaret Mead

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“I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.” — Dolly Parton

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“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.” — Susan Sontag

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“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.” — Kate Bosworth

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“Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — George Herbert

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“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.” — Anais Nin

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“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.” — John Ciardi

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“Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.” — Andy Rooney

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“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” — Max Frisch

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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” — Dorothea Lange

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“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.” — Marcel Proust

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“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.” — Ingrid Bergman

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“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.” — Al McGuire

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“If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'” — Donald Trump

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“There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.” — Doug Coupland

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