Time Quotes

When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions.

Scott Adams

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Hellen Kelle

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

Edward P. Tryon

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

In an information world where we all have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.

Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.

Allphonse de Lamartine

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were 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 Preache

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

William Pickens

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan Taylo

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Fulton John Sheen

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Philip Saltie

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.

John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy".

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.

Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Norman Maile

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Walt Kelly