Time Quotes

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

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

John McEnroe

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Nancy Davis Reagan

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Frances Burnett

What you give you get, ten times over.

Yoruba Prove

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Joe Moore

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

We shall not 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, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets

Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look, is waiting to be discovered, Wanting you to take notice. Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person. Who knows what you may learn.

Neill MacRae

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

How can a guy hit and think at the same time.

Lawrence Peter Berra

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Mark Twain

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

We shall not 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

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Blaise Pascal

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

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

William Shakespeare

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it.

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

W. Somerset Maugham

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Prove

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Miguel de Cervantes

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore