Time Quotes

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

James Goldsmith

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Gaius Petronius

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - This is an old rule.

The Dhammapada

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Unknown

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Marquis de Sade

Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

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

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

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset

Sometimes... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Harold Walke

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry S. Haskins

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

Lewis Grizzard

It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?

Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Mark Twain

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.

Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon

When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.

Unknown

Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudne

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

Unknown

Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Author Unknown

When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.

Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

Carol Burnett

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn