Time Quotes

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Jeanne Moreau

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.

Frank Vanderlip

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliott

There is no time like the pleasant.

George Bergman

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Terry Pratchett

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Joel Barke

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

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

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme.

Maitri Upanishads

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

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

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

D. March

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

Nelson Mandela

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

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

Woody Allen

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Simeon Strunsky

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

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

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Thomas Paine