Time Quotes

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be... and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.
Ecclesiates 1922 Bible
Mark twain - describing her first day back in grade school...
Vincent van gogh - our greatest glory consists not in never failing,...
In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.
T. S. Eliot
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Alastair Reid
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
Frederick W. Taylo
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
Dogen Zenji
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylo
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Al Rogers
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well - Timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Stanislaw lec - advice to writers sometimes you just have to stop...
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Sir Arthur Helps
Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning
In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
How frequently the last time comes and we do not know.
John Walte
The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer.
Sheila M. Kelly
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be.
Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Amy Vanderbilt
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Mortimer Adle
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurbe
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adle
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fulle
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
Miss Piggy
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I now have no time to be tired.
Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - And their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John H. Patterson
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian