Quotes about time

I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.

Woody Allen

I couldn’t figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

Sara Blakely

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.

Mario Andretti

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

Benjamin Franklin

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

Charles Darwin

An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

Mahatma Gandhi

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Marilyn Monroe

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Oliver Goldsmith

A few minutes before, there had only been three real things before me – the immensity of the night and space and nature, my own feebleness and anguish, and the near approach of death.

H. G. Wells

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

Winston Churchill