Time Quotes

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent van Gogh

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Heinrich Heine

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.

Erin Cleary

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

Swordfish

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

It is easy to fly into a passion - - Anybody can do that - - But to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - - That is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Horace Greeley

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

G. K. Chesterton

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Benny Hill

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

Ani Difranco, Letter to a John

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Proverbs 2416a Bible

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Francois Arouet

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - - But a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Charles E. Wilson

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

Edward P. Tryon

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

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

Edward Dowden