Time Goes On Quotes

• Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Time, Spares

  "The Complete Works of Josh Billings".

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Past, Gone

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.264

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• Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Time, Sunset

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• The fundamental things apply
  As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Fundamentals, Sigh, Time Goes By

  "As Time Goes By" (song) (1931)

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• You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Time, Kissing, Popular Song

  "As Time Goes By" (song) (1931)

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Goes On, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 04, 2014

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• As time goes on, thing do get made up.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Goes On, Made

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• Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Achievement, Goes On

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.257, Humanix Books

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• I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.

  RZA

  Thinking, Rapper, Generations

  Source: www.rappersiknow.com

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• As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

  Paul Dirac

  Nature, Science, Interesting

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• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Thinking, Investing

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• Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

  Jeff Bridges

  Couple, Home, Years

  Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

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• Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing... raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting...Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality... Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on.

  Martha Van Rensselaer

  Educational, School, Home

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• I like how time goes on set. It's almost like time on an airplane or something where people are together. It's a different, very trippy kind of time, I find, because you're together in imaginary time where you're out of time. You're called upon to be present and honor what can happen in the moment. And the whole day can go like that. The whole day can be a kind of meditation.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Airplane, People, Meditation

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• For most of my life, I've been, ‘Hey, I'm not into it, but I respect your right to believe whatever you want'. But as time goes on, weirdly, I'm growing less liberal. I'm more like, 'No, religion is ruining the world, you need to stop!’

  Chris O'Dowd

  Believe, Needs, Hey

  "Actor Chris O'Dowd says religion is 'unacceptable'", www.smh.com.au. March 8, 2014.

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• Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

  Patrick Ness

  Goes On

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy." Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier." "I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on." "I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. "I know.

  Nora Roberts

  Attitude, Heart, Long

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Bay Saga 1-4”, p.226, Penguin

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Blow, Grieving

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Moving, Goes On

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• When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.

  George Clooney

  Actors, Goes On, Scripts

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• As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

  Rick Danko

  Dream, Cutting, Apples

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• I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm just looking for the door. I find myself getting more and more agoraphobic as time goes on.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Doors, People, Goes On

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

  Dave Matthews

  Goes On, Young, Harder

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