Time Quotes

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

Woody Allen

There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.

Unknown

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

George Sanders

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

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.

Andrew Schneide

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Howard Aiken

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Franklin Roosevelt

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Sir Francis Bacon

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

Oliver Bevan

Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

Billy Madison

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Kahlil Gibran

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - Even when you? re in the dark. Even when you? re falling.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.