Time Quotes

100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.

Lazarus Long

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

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund - Raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.

William Hamilton

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

Lester R Bittel

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante Alighieri

No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.

Donna Summe

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Dogen Zenji

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

John Wanamake

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000

I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Old School

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

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

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Sarah Brady

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

Francis Bacon

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.

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