But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. The end of Disraeli's badly-received maiden speech in the House of Commons in 1837. Disraeli was being shouted down by other MPs.