Time Quotes (12477)
Quotes and citations about time
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
By : Floyd Abrams
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
By : Floyd Abrams
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
By : Marcel Achard
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
By : Chinua Achebe
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
By : Kathy Acker
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
By : Gary Ackerman
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
By : Jensen Ackles
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
By : Harold Acton
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
By : John Acton
Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'
By : Amy Adams
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!
By : Amy Adams
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
By : Amy Adams
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
By : Ansel Adams
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
By : Ansel Adams
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
By : Bryan Adams
I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.
By : Don Adams
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
By : Don Adams
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
By : Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
By : Franklin P. Adams
At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
By : Gerry Adams
The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.
By : Gerry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
By : Henry B. Adams
Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.
By : Maude Adams
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
By : Maude Adams
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
By : Samuel Hopkins Adams
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
By : Scott Adams
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
By : Scott Adams
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
By : Will Adams
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
By : Will Adams
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
By : Henry Addington