Time Quotes

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Pete

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.

Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Daniel Webste

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Horace

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffe

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03

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

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

Will Durant

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

William Pickens

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Alfred Montapert

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.

St. Francis of Assissi

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

Anonymous

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce

When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Diogenes the Cynic

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas a Kempis

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

Peter de Jage

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preache

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

Unknown

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

Buddha