Time Quotes

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Anonymous

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Edwin Louis Cole

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Lynn Taylo

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical.

Pamela Ribon

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

Peter De Vries

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmache

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.

The Dhammapada

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Leon Trotsky

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles Monroe Schultz

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Shimon Peres

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day

Sometimes... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.

Paul Williams, Das Energi

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Albert Einstein

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

One dies only once, and then for such a long time.

Moliere

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Mark Twain

Take life one basket at a time.

Jackie Wilson

Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

Swordfish

How frequently the last time comes and we do not know.

John Walte

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Arthur Koestle

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides, Aeolus

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank H. Crane

Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.

Sophocles

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.

Scott Adams

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt