Time Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

— John Steinbeck

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

— John Steinbeck

life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it

— John Steinbeck

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

— John Steinbeck

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

— John Steinbeck

“Because time does the job, dynamite can't touch. (Samuel Hamilton)”

— John Steinbeck

“He always tell what it will be like someday." "Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.”

— John Steinbeck

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

— John Steinbeck

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

— John Steinbeck

“Through my own efforts, I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.”

— John Steinbeck

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience…

— John Steinbeck

“The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in…

— John Steinbeck

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

— John Steinbeck

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm…

— John Steinbeck

“fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself,…

— John Steinbeck

“They’s a time of change, an’ when that comes, dyin’ is a piece of all dyin’, and bearin’ is a piece of…

— John Steinbeck

“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his…

— John Steinbeck

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds…

— John Steinbeck

A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method…

— John Steinbeck

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these…

— John Steinbeck

“We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure.…

— John Steinbeck

“When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that…

— John Steinbeck

“The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after movement in time and space has ceased. I remember a man…

— John Steinbeck

“The old man slowly unwrapped the shining blade and let the lamplight slip along it for a moment. Then he wrapped it…

— John Steinbeck

“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact…

— John Steinbeck

“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted…

— John Steinbeck

Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or…

— John Steinbeck

“I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces…

— John Steinbeck

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,…

— John Steinbeck

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights…

— John Steinbeck

“Course you did,” said Tom. “Always talk. If you was up on the gallows you’d be passin’ the time a day with…

— John Steinbeck

“It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it and it's usually crucifixion.”

— John Steinbeck

“That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the…

— John Steinbeck

“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes…

— John Steinbeck

“Sad as they were at his moral decay, the friends were not a little jealous of the good time Danny was having.”

— John Steinbeck

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if…

— John Steinbeck

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

— John Steinbeck

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

— John Steinbeck

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them…

— John Steinbeck

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a…

— John Steinbeck