I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

But time has set its maggot on their track.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I didn’t really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry… but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Time itself comes in drops.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.