Time Quotes

Harriet - never give up, for that is just the place and...
Johann von schille - he who has done his best for his own time has...
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein, Sc
One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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)
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland
Lois mcmaster bujold - but pain... seems to me an insufficient reason...
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
May you always live in interesting times.
Chinese Curse
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoove
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Once upon a time - - Of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve - - Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting - House.
Charles Dickens
When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.
Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One!
Richard M. DeVos
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Lisa Althe
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias G. Smollett
Time eases all things.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill - Up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
John Wanamake
I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurbe
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard Feynman
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
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
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.
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