Time Quotes
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.Gore Vidal
You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.Michelangelo, Poem Fragment
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.James Carroll
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.Howard Aiken
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.Baltasar Gracian
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.Charlotte Bronte
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.Margaret Mead
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.Sydney Harris
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.Michael Landon
Always have some project under way... an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time.Dr. Lillian Troll
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.Leo Tolstoy
We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Richard Bach
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.Thomas Fulle
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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 was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.Book of Common Praye
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price.Frederick Winslow Taylo
Wise and prudent men - - Intelligent conservatives - - Have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.John Dryden
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.Unknown
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.Coco Chanel
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.Abraham Joshua Heschel
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.C. C. Colton
Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
