Time Quotes

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Golo Mann

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

There is no time like the pleasant.

George Bergman

Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

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

Andrew Carnegie

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. Wodehouse

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Lisa Althe

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Michael Landon

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Henry David Thoreau

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman

Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Time is but a stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

What a time! What a civilization!

Cicero

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

Aaron Rose

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

All great achievements require time.

David Joseph Schwartz

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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, "Memory", 1996

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Augusta Jane Evans

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Time is the image of eternity.

Laertius Diogenes

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring