“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”
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.
“My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'”
“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”
“I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.”
“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.”
“You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?”
“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.”
“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
“Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.”
“By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.”
“Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.”
“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.'”
“Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.”
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
“I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.”
“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”