Time Quotes
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.Ben Hecht
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.Andrew Carnegie
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.Will Rogers
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.Seneca
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.Henry David Thoreau
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - The cemetery.Author Unknown
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
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, 1966
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.Peter Drucke
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.Charles M. Schulz
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.Dame Rose Macaulay
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.Miguel de Cervantes
We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.Gladys Tabe
No matter how long it takes, If you keep moving, One step at a time, You will reach the finish line...Unknown
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.Mark Twain
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Brenda Ueland
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.Robert Collie
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.W. H. Davies
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.Daniel Webste
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.Ovid
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.Leonard Bernstein
Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.Edmund Burke
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.Aeschylus
A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.Steward Alsop
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare
Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Earl of Chesterfield
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.Robertson Davies
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.George Orwell
