Time Quotes

Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sidney J. Harris
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
John Barrymore
Thomas fulle - if thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a...
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ella wheeler wilcox - it ever has been since time began, and ever will...
If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
Author Unknown
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Norman Maile
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Unknown
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.
Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities".
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Hellen Kelle
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
Norman Ford
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.
Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.
Author Unknown
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliott
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Captain lawrence oates, last words - i am just going outside and may be some time....
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.
Vinny Nayak
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
Alain
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
Woody Allen
Time cancels young pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Cicero
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Terry Pratchett
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944
The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
Patty Labelle
You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.
Michelangelo, Poem Fragment
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Sir Francis Bacon
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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