Time Quotes

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler, American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

il faut laisser du temps au temps you have to give time time - Approximate translation.

Francois Mitterand

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected.

Pliny the Elde

He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

Henry Fielding, "Jonathan Wild".

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy Davenport

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?

Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John McEnroe

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God".

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Eugene McCarthy

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

French Prove

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

To be a housewife is... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Phyllis Mcginley

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Pete

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Miss Piggy