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“Our strength or weakness will depend on our success or failure to attract the loyalty and devotion of men at home and in the uncommitted nations. Our military strength has bought us time--expensive and precious time; time to examine the weaknesses in our private enterprise system and to make corrections--corrections needed to make the system more workable and more attractive to all.”
Paul Hellyer (1923–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modules change with time, and there is no sense of time in programming development. If you look at something like git, the way you deal with time is checksum, timestamp...”
Joe Armstrong (programmer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t think I’ve done my best work yet, you know what I’m saying? It ain’t no time to rest right now. It’s the time to get your head clear and figure out what you’re gonna do next, but it’s not necessarily the time to go to the islands.”
Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This time something’s wrong. This time I hear no song. This time, I feel this could be real, this could be love.”
“In the early stages of any project I need longer periods of unstructured time to delve deeply into the writing and to stick to the project. It’s easier for me to balance several things at once if I’m in the editing and polishing phases of writing. I’m almost always craving more time and solitude to write, but at the same time I know that being engaged in the world is what fuels my writing.”
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is time to move from mere talk to action in the second quarter of the Year make bold move, this time Refuse delays, laziness and indecision and see how God will turn things around for you this is time to arise and shine.”
Margaret Idahosa (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The time has come to build a new and better Angola, without unrealistic promises and megalomaniac projects, a working Angola where everyone has a place and to which everyone can contribute. The time has come to put an end to corruption, to theft, the time has come for democratic change.”
Adalberto Costa Júnior (born 1962) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adalberto Costa Júnior (2021) cited in: "Angolan opposition re-elect Adalberto Costa Junior as leader" in Africa News, 6 December 2021.
“We don’t have much time. The climate crisis has done something to time. We have a short time gap to turn things around and get the environment back on an even keel.”
“Fifteen, there's still time for you, Time to buy and time to lose, fifteen. There's never a wish better than this, When you only got a hundred years to live.”
Five for Fighting (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Octavia Butler said that “[t]here’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.” We are in a time of new suns. We’re in a time of new suns. We have no idea what we could be, but everything that we have been is falling apart. So it’s time to change. And we can be mindful about that. That’s exciting.”
Adrienne Maree Brown (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you don't keep giving the Arabs a bloody nose from time to time, the Arab balloon will blow up. We are going to live like this, hacking at each other, for some time to come.”
Ezer Weizman (1924–2005) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Israel: Cabinet of Hawks" in TIME (26 December 1969)
“it's time that people stop looking for speakers, for very prepared leaders-lawyers, professors, doctors, whatever. It's time that the poor look for [sic] ourselves as leaders. It's time that the universities take their place behind the poor in this struggle.”
Juan González (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve been doing this daily and loving it each day, but I do think it’s time for me, it’s time for the radio station, it’s time for listeners to hear something new and fresh”
Diane Rehm (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can’t tell if that man or woman loves you for who you are or because you are a celebrity. I will get married when God says it is my time. My time has yet to come and that is why I am still single. Anyone who rushes into marriage will definitely rush out, so I am taking my time.”
Ronke Odunsanya (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The race, I`m a little sad. The time, I`m like, Wow. I`m stoked,..I`m really happy about the time. I knew I had it in me. This is a place to pop this kind of PR. I`m really pleased with the time.”
Jenny Simpson (born 1986) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Barringer sets record in taking 5th at worlds, Daily Camera, August 18, 2009.
“It was a very long, tiring, challenging and revealing journey, and once again, MAWU SOGBILISA changed the story to his glory. It has happened, on time, in time, in his time.”
Kafui Danku (born 1982) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kimberly Frempong, Actress Kafui Danku displays baby on social media, Ghanaian Times, 21 September 2019.
“You put so much time and effort into such a small amount of time,but all that amount of time is worth so much”
Angelica Hale (born 2007) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was a time during a period of national crisis when politicians from both sides of the aisle put partisan politics aside to uncover the truth. There was a time when Democrats and Republicans united to navigate a peaceful ending to a corrupt and criminal presidency. There was a time when members of Congress placed defending our democracy above party interests for the greater good.”
Robert Redford (1936–2025) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert Redford: 45 years after Watergate, the truth is again in danger", The Washington Post (March 31, 2017).
“There’s a direct link of how we spend our time and how successful we are. There’s a direct link between how we manage our time and poverty. Some individuals make a whole country’s budget in a day! That’s the extent of the possibility of how we can apply our time.”
Amina Ahmed El-Imam (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed.”
Alex Kingston (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now what Einstein's geometry pointed out is that the time comes in squared with a minus sign. ...[R]emember ...Euclid's geometry... every time you square something it's got a plus sign. No, it's got a minus sign. ...You have to subtract the time separation from the space separation, and if they're equal, this [S] goes to zero.”
John Dobson (amateur astronomer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a very surreal feeling to walk through the doors another time, the last time coming as a citizen and this time coming in as a citizen legislator, and knowing that weight of responsibility is on your shoulders. I kind of took a pause at the door and looked in. I have this responsibility to the people who sent me here and hopefully I can do them proud.”
Stephen Silberkraus (born 1981) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crash course convenes for new lawmakers in Carson City (13 November 2014) Las Vegas Review-Journal
“It's not easy. But, I mean, I raise the kids, you know, full-time. They live with me. I welcome a great, healthy relationship with my kids and their dad, and I think he knows that, I push for it all the time, but I also protect them when, you know, it's time for that. And it goes in waves and phases and it’s a lot of work.”
Kim Kardashian (born 1980) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kim Kardashian admits it's 'not easy' parenting kids with Ye, family hasn't heard from him in months Entertainment Weekly (October 15, 2025).
“Time always keeps short in the happy guns and I will not have time I will not have time”
Michel Fugain (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Making work is a documentation of a journey - each stage, each process, each dilemma has to be worked through. At one time I felt pressured to do a lot of things at the same time, but now I want to take one step at a time. When you make an artwork you're not just doing something at that moment, you're contributing to an entire history of artmaking.”
Tracey Rose (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's time for millennials to take over. Now, not in 10 years time. It's messy right now, imagine in 10 years time.”
Aweng Ade-Chuol wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was already starring for quite a time in a high-rated series at the time: Commissaire Moulin, and I had heard of a sort of Cagney and Lacey kind of series and found the idea very appealing. It was as serious as Law and Order, one of my favorite series of all time.”
Natacha Amal (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Broadly my time is shared between supporting the professional development work we do in schools, and doing and supporting the research that is linked to this work, with a large proportion of time supporting full time doctoral students in the project. I teach less than I did before. I travel internationally a fair amount, to conferences and for other international work I do.”
Jill Adler (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You just never know what you're gonna get, Wolfe Herd told Time.It's tricky because you need so much of your brain during the day to be a CEO. You need a rational, rested mind to function. Everyone says: 'One day at a time.' I actually prefer one hour at a time”
Whitney Wolfe Herd (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tell people I am a full-time worker and a part-time footballer. A lot of us have to take unpaid leave to play matches. But come game day you would never say we are not full-time players.”
Kaylin Swart (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life has been amazing, spending time with my family and that’s what I’ve been longing for many years, as you know as a professional athlete you travel a lot ... you don’t get time to sit down. I don’t know if players talk about it, I’m taking time to take care of my mental health.”
Nomvula Kgoale (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are happy that up to this time, the registration process has been going well. The Minister of Justice updates us from time to time. When you register, you should know why you are registering and be sure of the calibre of people you want to vote for”
Cleopas Dlamini (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A life that is never tasted when girls is at home are arrested. Gold ties, tighten, play her a fool time, time and time and so it can be imagined chocolate drips from tomato clouds will finally lossen and I will stick, sticky in love with freedom as this.”
Rina Banerjee (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, it’s not a coincidence that today the leader should be her. Some things are designed and God uses us as instruments to propel what he has given to us. This is a time for women, this is a time of meme and this will be her time.”
Katamelo Phillipus Wido (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Filipino: “Hindi ka lang maiintindihan ngayon pero darating ‘yung panahon na mahahanap mo ‘yung boses mo... Siguro now is not your time pero that doesn’t mean you should quit.” In English: “You may not be understood right now, but there will come a time when you will find your voice... Maybe this is not your time yet, but that doesn’t mean you should quit.”
Kara David (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that this result came at the right time. I try – you know, being a successful junior doesn’t mean that you’re going to be a successful professional, so I made it a point to work hard every day and to trust that my time would come, and hopefully this is the time.”
Alexandra Eala (born 2005) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On any day calculate the longitude of the Sun and the Moon for sunrise or sunset without applying the longitude correction, and therefrom find the time (since sunrise or sunset), in ghatis, of rising or setting of the Moon; and having done this, note the corresponding time in ghatis from the water clock. From the difference, knowledgeable astronomers can calculate the local longitude in time.*?”
Bhāskara I (600–680) said by 680 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bhaskara, quoted in C. K. Raju. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe. Pearson Education India, 2007
“Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. We speak of leisure time, but what we really mean thereby is time in which we can feel at leisure. What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”
Vernon Lee (1856–1935) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Leisure", in Limbo, and Other Essays (1897) p. 139
“In Milan, everyone walks like mice, using very small spaces in a very short time; in Tempio, the exact opposite happens: we all walk with long strides and few worries; the spaces are still enormous and the time it takes to complete many projects can even be considered “geological time”. Genoa, from this point of view, represents an enviable middle ground. (p. 131)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always been super aware of how short our lives are and how it's so important to make the most of the time we have on Earth. Time flies by, and for me, it's about energetically and emotionally giving time to what's important. Sometimes I think, when I'm 85 will this matter?”
Monica Barbaro (born 1990) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edworthy, Sarah (May 29, 2020). "Interview: Monica Barbaro". Vanity Fair.
“We write little by little, piece by piece, day by day. I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘When I retire I will have a lot of time to write,’ but simply having time on your hands doesn’t guarantee you’ll produce. It’s a matter of doing it bit by bit…. Every day new ideas grow; you cannot have all of them at the same time.”
Lawrence Darmani (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.”
George Ayittey (1945–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My time in Kakuma was a good time. We didn’t know anything else, other than that time.We just lived there trying to make the best of every day. I always say it was a thing of not really knowing or being certain we’re going to make it to the next day. We just knew that we had to live each day as it came.”
Adut Akech (born 1999) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I [felt] very loved. I love my fans. They gave me a very warm welcome — shout out to Day N Vegas. This is my second time performing here, and last time it was lit, but this time was unmatched.”
Rico Nasty (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you get older, you start to see how valuable their teenagers are to them [and] their kids are to them. … Sometimes I’m lonely, but I’m alone a lot. I’m in my home, but we have a good time. We have a good time. I make sure we have a good time”
Mary J. Blige (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m no bigger-time Charlie than Cantona or Keane or Robson. But we are big-time Charlies because when it comes to the big events, we produce. That’s why we’re called big-time Charlies.”
“I pity the university for not giving T enough time. You know I got all duded up, got dressed, the students were all ready for me, then they gave me short time. So I pity them. So if they want to be unpitied, they'll invite me back and give me more time.”
Mr. T (attributed) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at UCLA, May 9, 2002.
“However great the power of time may be, yet it never entirely obliterates the remembrance and influences of the past; even though the mind may have long remained unoccupied by the emotions immediately produced by those events. With all its changes, it is time itself which has given that which may be regarded as true existence, and which may be justly said to be independent even of time.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
Abraham Lincoln (attributed) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This is probably the most famous of apparently apocryphal remarks attributed to Lincoln. Despite it being cited variously as from an 1856 speech, or a September 1858 speech in Clinton, Illinois, there are no known conte…
“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”