Time Quotes

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Samuel Smiles

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

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

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

What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Alain

il faut laisser du temps au temps you have to give time time - Approximate translation.

Francois Mitterand

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Henry Louis Mencken

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

So little time, so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Be ready when opportunity comes... Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.

Tyron Edwards

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Nancy Asto

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

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

Eric Hoffe

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Robin Williams

Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - - The extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Arthur Koestle

This is Chris - In - The - Morning with the weather and time - - 24 hours later than it was yesterday and cold.

Andrew Schneide

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

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

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: It seemed a good idea at the time.

Dame Rebecca West

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Wise are they who have learned these truths Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

M. Scott Peck

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.