Time Quotes
One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.Thomas Carlyle
The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.Patty Labelle
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.Emily Dickinson
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One!Richard M. DeVos
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?Karl Kraus
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.Rebecca West
Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.Richard Milhous Nixon
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.John Lennon
All my possessions for a moment of time.Elizabeth I
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.Saki, "The Square Egg", 1924
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.Lawrence George Durrell
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.Alan Valentine
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919
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
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.Thomas Paine
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.Eleanor Marx
Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.Unknown
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.Lazarus Long
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles, 1966
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.Alfred E. Wiggam
I wasted time, now time doth waste me.William Shakespeare, Richard II
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.Sydney Harris
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.Publilius Syrus
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
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
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.French Prove
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)
