Quotes on Time

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.

I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.

Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It's an amazing story.

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

There isn't anything I wanted to do that I haven't. At the same time, there isn't anything I've ever done that I didn't want to do better.

I grew up feeling unattractive, and it took a long time to grow into a place where I was comfortable with me.