Time Quotes

Gaius petronius - we trained very hard, but it seemed that every...
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Sir Winston Churchill
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
Joe Moore
Nigerian prove - he who waits for a chance may wait for a long...
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
John C. Dvorak
Leonard bernstein - any great work of art revives and readapts time...
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.
Happy Gilmore
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
Unknown
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
Arthur Koestle
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
John Ruskin
Time eases all things.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Nikita Khrushchev
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Dean
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Willem de Kooning
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.
Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Terry Pratchett
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
John Wanamake
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas H. Huxley
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
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
C. J. Jung
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
Martha Graham
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Clive Staples Lewis
As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.
Matthew Ryan