Time Quotes

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

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

Laurence J. Pete

The time for thinkers has come.

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

Time eases all things.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.

Francois Arouet

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 you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Boris Becke

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - But sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Japanese Prove

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

Leon Trotsky

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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.

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

Chitto Harjo

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

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

Eddie Canto

Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

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

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

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

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Shimon Peres

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Hippocrates

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

Cynthia Nelms

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Mortimer Adle

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

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Author Unknown