Time Quotes

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

Robert Benchley

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One!

Richard M. DeVos

I thank my God everytime I remember you.

Philippians 13 NIV Bible

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.

Albert Einstein

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Alexandre Dumas

Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Australian Aboriginal Prove

During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.

Bill McKenney, Speech to the Harvard Antimony Society, August 15, 2005

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?

E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

Duncan Maxwell Anderson

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle, Physics

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde