Time Quotes
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
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
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?Carl L. Becke
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.Benjamin Disraeli
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.Rainer Maria Rilke
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...Old School
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.Henry David Thoreau
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
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.Teddy Carroll
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
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.Woody Allen
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Barke
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.Margaret Lee Runbeck
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.A. M. Rosenthal
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.Ani Difranco, Letter to a John
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.Anonymous
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.Dogen Zenji
The best way to fill time is to waste it.Marguerite Duras
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.Mark Twain
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
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - The cemetery.Author Unknown
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
Probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.Bruce Barton
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.Martha Graham
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.Lazarus Long
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.Scottish Prove
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.John Dryden
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
