Time Quotes

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Carl L. Becke

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

Be patient enough to live one day at a time, letting yesterday go and leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

Unknown

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Dr. Robert Schulle

The trouble with born - Again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Herb Caen

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

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical.

Pamela Ribon

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isaac Watts

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist.

Steward Alsop

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

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

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Brian Tracy

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

Henry David Thoreau

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as nutty methods. Or you can put well - Researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919

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

Alain

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time.

Old School

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

James Thurbe

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Unknown

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

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