Time Quotes
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.Thomas Troward
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.Vinny Nayak
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.Lily Tomlin
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard E. Byrd
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.Ovid
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.Johann von Schille
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
il faut laisser du temps au temps you have to give time time - Approximate translation.Francois Mitterand
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.George Gordon Byron
If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.Katharine Butler Hathaway
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.John Lithgow
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.Nelson Mandela
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.Travis Walton
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.Simeon Strunsky
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.Tallulah Bankhead
Truth is the daughter of time.Aulus Gellius
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.The Work of the Chariot
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.Robert Half
Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.Oliver Bevan
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.Chazal
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.Lazarus Long
Gather ye rose - Buds while ye may, Old Time is still a - Flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.Mahatma Gandhi
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred - And - First blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.Jacob A. Riis
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.Milton Friedman
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.- Dante Alighieri
Love is space and time measured by the heart.Marcel Proust
