Time Quotes
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.Gore Vidal
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
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.John Peter Zenge
The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.William Pickens
Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.Stella Terrill Mann
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
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
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
One dies only once, and then for such a long time!Moli? re, Le D? pit Amoureux (1656)
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.Seneca
A week is a long time in politics.Harold Wilson
Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.Herbert Hoove
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.Douglas Noel Adams
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.George Bernard Shaw
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
We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.Lily Tomlin
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.Rita Rudne
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.Quentin Crisp
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.Wilson Mizne
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.Ernest Hemingway
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.Peter Drucke
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.Swordfish
I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
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
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
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".
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, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets
The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman
