Time Quotes

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandino

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

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

I... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Amanda Heggs

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry

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., December 11, 1964

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical.

Pamela Ribon

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

Leo Kennedy

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Summertime, and the living is easy.

George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

William Pickens

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Hellen Kelle

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.

Albert Schweitze

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - - Or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

John B. Gough

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.

Honore de Balzac

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.

Author Unknown

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

Wilson Mizne

I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.

Tim Burton, Burton On Burton

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy