Time Quotes

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.

Andrew Schneide

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Marie de Rabutin - Chantal

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isaac Watts

One dies only once, and then for such a long time!

Moli? re, Le D? pit Amoureux (1656)

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

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

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Were looking for something, though were not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preache

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

Woody Allen

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

Vincent Van Gogh

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Alfred De Musset

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Rodin

History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.

Eudora Welty

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.

Dame Rebecca West

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

David Viscott

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

Time cancels young pain.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

Unknown

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx