- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.
- Television
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
- Sacrifice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020