Time Quotes

Mahatma gandhi - when i despair, i remember that all through...
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bea
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoove
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Ramble
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09 - 17 - 05
I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.
Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
Phaedrus
Beryl markham - you can live a lifetime and, at the end of it,...
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides, Aeolus
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004
Next time I will... From now on I will... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow
Hugh Prathe
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
Chinese Prove
Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.
Richard Milhous Nixon
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
G. K. Chesterton
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson, cartoonist
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.
Christopher Darlington Morley
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.
Old School
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
Proverbs 12: 19, The Bible
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
Ernest Hemingway, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.
Author Unknown
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Japanese Prove
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. Battista
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Prove
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Ballantine Gough
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
American Greetings Card
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert