Time Quotes

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

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

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Canto

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

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

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

There will be a time when loud - Mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

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

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

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

Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

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

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Walt Kelly

Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw Lec

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.

Bertrand Russell

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Patty Labelle

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Mark Twain

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One

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

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

John Blasik

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.

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