Time Quotes
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.Nancy Asto
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
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.E. B. White
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.Friedrich Nietzsche
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.Unknown
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.Ani Difranco, Letter to a John
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
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.Mark Yost
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.Frances Burnett
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.Jacob Riis
Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.Joe Moore
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.Helen Merrell Lynd
Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.George Orwell
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.Baltasar Gracian
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. promoting US exports, as quoted in Time.Phil Gramm
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.Che
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.Michel de Montaigne
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.Thomas H. Huxley
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.Al Bernstein
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.Guy
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
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.Vincent McNa
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.Elizabeth II
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003
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 vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.David Browe
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.John Barrymore
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
