Enough Time Quotes - Page 12

• Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

  Pablo Neruda

  Time, Heart, Sadness

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• The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

  Frank Bettger

  Time, Freedom, Work

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Impact, People

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• There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

  Elizabeth Banks

  Helping, Plans, Humans

  "Elizabeth Banks on "Great Broad" Nora Ephron and Her Summer Camp Romance". Interview with Tara Block, www.popsugar.com. June 29, 2012.

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• What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.

  Mike Mignola

  Book, Tv Shows, Body

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• There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Our World, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

  Jimmy Wales

  Wikipedia, Screw Ups, Given

  "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

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• Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

  Dean Koontz

  Motivation, Character, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1053, Bantam

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• There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

  Craig Stone

  World, Misery, Wallowing

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• Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

  Lemmy Kilmister

  People, Bullshit, Waiting

  Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.

  Vera Farmiga

  Dollars, Film, Millions

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• We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Time, Numbers, Finite Number

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• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Unhappy

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Strong, Moss, Meals

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black

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• I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Years

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• There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Time, Clever

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• I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

  Sonia Johnson

  Time, Admitting, Reason

  Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books

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• Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

  Jon Foreman

  Games, Play, Life Is

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• Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

  Emanuel Ax

  Player, Too Much, Arguing

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• Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.

  Carroll Smith

  Race, Track, Matter

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• We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiration, Thinking, Meditation Practice

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.76, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love Is, Matter, Message In A Bottle

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• Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Would Be, World

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• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Priorities In Life, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Light, People, Hydrogen

  Smithsonian Magazine, December 1995.

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