Time Quotes

J. p. mcevoy - practical people would be more practical if they...
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Carl Sandburg
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
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Rebecca West
Stan openshaw - doomsday - some people imagine that nuclear war will mean...
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.
Mark Twain
Jonathan swift - as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for...
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias G. Smollett
succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.
Teddy Carroll
I wasted time, now time doth waste me.
William Shakespeare, Richard II
Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
Burk Hudson
Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.
Stella Terrill Mann
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
Leo Kennedy
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Og Mandino
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. Mencken
Long stormy spring - Time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
Alain
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
Helen Merrell Lynd
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs... and jerk the heck out of you.
Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred - And - First blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
Edwin Louis Cole
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Henry Louis Mencken
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
Isaac Watts