Quotes about Time
I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.
— Martin Luther
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
— Michael Ignatieff
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
— Pope Francis
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
— Origen
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
— Francois Rabelais
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
— Francois Rabelais
It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
— George Eliot
Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau