Quotes about time

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Albert Camus

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.

Helen Fisher

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

David Copperfield

I didn’t go to college at all, any college, and I’m not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I’m a huge celebrity.

Ellen DeGeneres

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Denzel Washington

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Carl Jung

After you’ve done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, ‘Oh well, we don’t want you anymore.’

George Lucas

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who, who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands, will come, will, will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

Malcolm X

Every time we do wrong, every time we depart from the truth, every time we commit a dishonest, unworthy act, do a mean, contemptible thing, we lessen the omnipotent grip upon us, and then we become a prey to all sorts of fears, apprehensions, dreads, and doubts.

Orison Swett Marden