Time Quotes
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.Marcel Proust
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.Harold J. Seymou
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.Henry Ford
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.Henry Louis Mencken
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.George W. Bush
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...Proverbs 2416a Bible
The time is always right to do what is right.Martin Luther King Jr.
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.Edward P. Tryon
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!Peter de Jage
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.Tom Hopkins
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
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.John Milton
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.C. C. Colton
The bottom line is that a people are never perfect, but love can be, b that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and c doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecke
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.Seneca
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.George Santayana
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.Alfred North Whitehead
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 Stevenson
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
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.H. L. Mencken
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.Coolio, The Winne
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
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.Samuel Butle
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.Margaret Lee Runbeck
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.Friedrich Nietzsche
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - - But a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.Charles E. Wilson
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.George Orwell
