Time is the one resource you cannot earn more of. These quotes explore how we spend it, waste it, treasure it, and try to slow it down — and the universal human experience of realizing too late that a particular moment mattered more than you thought.
“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.”
“If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'”
“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
“I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.”
“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”
“Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'”
“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”
“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.”
“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
“I keep working because I learn something new all the time.”
“Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.”
“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.”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
“Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”