Time Quotes

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.

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

Leo Kennedy

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Alain

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney Harris

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Bob Edwards

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Canto

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Guy Davenport

Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Frances Watkins Harpe

Next time I will... From now on I will... What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow

Hugh Prathe

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis - Hector Berlioz

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Loren Eiseley

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

Author Unknown

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three - And - Twentieth yea.

John Milton

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Benjamin Disraeli

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - And, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A Multitasking Timex Sinclai.

Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X - Windows

You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.

Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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 Stephenson

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence George Durrell

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

Amanda Heggs

At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be.

Vinny Nayak

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

I now have no time to be tired.

Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody