Time Quotes

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck

The time for thinkers has come.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.

Frederick Winslow Taylo

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Karl Kraus

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Clive Staples Lewis

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mark Twain

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

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

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

Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Victor Hugo

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Leon Trotsky

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Beardon

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One!

Richard M. DeVos

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.

Danish prove

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Kahlil Gibran

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Walt West

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

- Dante Alighieri

Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

George Orwell

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Napoleon I

In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...

John Simon