Time Quotes

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Sarah Brady

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841

Time - - Our youth - - It never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmye

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.

Saying Folk

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

Frances Watkins Harpe

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Herbert Rappaport

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitze

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Richard Bach, One

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Much speech is one thing, well - Timed speech is another.

Sophocles

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schille

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.

Vinny Nayak

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

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.

Unknown

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Shimon Peres

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.

Lazarus Long

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Lucille Ball

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

Look at a stone cutter 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 the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis

No matter how long it takes, If you keep moving, One step at a time, You will reach the finish line...

Unknown

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx