Passing Time Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time. — Anna Neagle
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has… — Glen Keane
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time... — Paulo Coelho
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin.… — James Carlos Blake
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass… — Earl Nightingale
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of… — Alan Bennett
Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in… — Blue Balliett
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore.… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply… — Benjamin Hoff
But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she… — Cecelia Ahern
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or… — John Green
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones. — Stephen King
Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form… — Guy Finley
Action without vision is only passing time. Vision without action is merely day dreaming. But vision with action can change the world. — Nelson Mandela
I guess this is growing up, tears stained pillows every night, staring naked at yourself in the mirror, waiting for the a text that will… — Kayla
Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly,… — Patrick Rothfuss

Who Wrote These Passing Time Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Passing Time Quotes as follows: