Time Quotes

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

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

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

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

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

Unknown

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Brenda Ueland

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Miss Piggy

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.

Bruce Barton

Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.

Stella Terrill Mann

In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.

Richard M. Nixon

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth II

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

Molly Wiest

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Robert Half

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

Marabel Morgan

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thomas Fulle

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand.

Robert Louis Stephenson

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.

Mark Twain

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Old Hickory Jackson

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain