Time Quotes
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.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
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.Jeanne Moreau
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.Nathan M. Pusey
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.Arthur Koestle
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.Leo C. Rosten
All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.Al Bernstein
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.Richard Willard Armou
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Jane Harrison
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
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
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.John Wesley
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.William Makepeace Thackeray
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - Nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.Anonymous
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King Jr.
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".
Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffe
He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.Henry Fielding, "Jonathan Wild".
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.William Shakespeare
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.Seneca
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
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.Sigmund Freud
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.P. G. Wodehouse
