Time Quotes

Franklin delano roosevelt - never before have we had so little time in which...
The work of the chariot - when a man takes one step toward god, god takes...
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
Jim Samuels
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
Seneca
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Pete
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
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...
Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Seneca - to be feared is to fear no one has been able to...
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sidney J. Harris
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.
Dan Surface, The One Business Book You Absolutely Must Own!
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.
William Jefferson Clinton
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann von Goethe
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
Lewis Grizzard
You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.
Charles Manson
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
Bob Edwards
Time is the least thing we have.
Ernest Hemingway
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.
Humphrey Davy
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Eleanor Marx
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.
William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5
May you always live in interesting times.
Chinese Curse
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961
This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
George Sanders
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney Harris
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson, cartoonist
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 1717 Bible
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius Syrus
No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus