Time Quotes

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

I? ll fight when needed, revel when there? s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes? but I won? t let anyone use me against my will.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Unknown

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won? t have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Jim Samuels

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

John Stuart Mill

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

We shall not 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

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

Unknown

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

O. A. Battista

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

Nelson Mandela

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

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

Unknown

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

What a time! What a civilization!

Cicero

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

David Letterman

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thomas Fulle

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann von Goethe

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.

Eric Hoffe

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless".

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

Time is the least thing we have.

Ernest Hemingway

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

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

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - And peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - Thou livest foreve.

George Gordon Byron

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford