Time Quotes

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

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfathe

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

James Barrie

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

You go to war with the Army you have. They? re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld, http: //www. dod. gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208 - Secdef1761. html

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...

G. K. Chesterton

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

American Greetings Card

Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again.

Sir Thomas More

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

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Leo Buscaglia

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

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

Pamela Ribon

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

J. S. Bach

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Theresa

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Gore Vidal

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy

Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.

Unknown

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Prove

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

Lester R Bittel

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Laurence J. Pete

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

E. B. White

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke