Time Quotes
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.Alain
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.Alfred E. Wiggam
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.Chinese Prove
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935
If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.Author Unknown
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.Author Unknown
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Earl of Chesterfield
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.Tallulah Bankhead
Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.John H. Patterson
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.Miguel De Cervantes
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.Edward De Bono
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
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.Stella Terrill Mann
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
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it.Spider - Man
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.Mark Twain
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.Herbert Clark Hoove
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.Unknown
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.Albert Einstein
Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.Hector Berlioz
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.Robin Williams
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.A. E. Houseman
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.Pericles, from Plutarch, Lives
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.Clarence Day
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.Marian Wright Edelman
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
