Time quotes

“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.” Bob Dylan

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” Clint Eastwood

“And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.” Clint Eastwood

“Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.” Clint Eastwood

“I keep working because I learn something new all the time.” Clint Eastwood

“People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.” Clint Eastwood

“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” Clint Eastwood

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.” Edgar Allan Poe

“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.” Audrey Hepburn

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.” Helen Keller

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Maya Angelou

“All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou

“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” Maya Angelou

“Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.” Warren Buffett

“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.” Warren Buffett

“You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.” Warren Buffett

“The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.” Warren Buffett

“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.” Warren Buffett