Time Quotes

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Nine - Tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

Peter De Vries

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

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

Oscar Wilde

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Well - Timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tuppe

I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Beryl Pfize

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Teresa, in her Nobel lecture

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

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F Scott

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

Author Unknown

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

A. M. Rosenthal

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

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Will Rogers

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt