Time Quotes
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.Clive Staples Lewis
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.Richard M. Nixon
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.Michel de Montaigne
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
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.Charles De Gaulle
The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time.J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.Philip Saltie
Most people my age are dead at the present time.Casey Stengel
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.Max Frisch
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut 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
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.James Thurbe
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.William Jefferson Clinton
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.Eugene McCarthy
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
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.I Ching
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time eases all things.Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.Dame Rose Macaulay
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.Polish Prove
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.Marie Curie
I thank my God everytime I remember you.Philippians 13 NIV Bible
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.Unknown
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.Sydney Harris
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
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
What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent.Francois Arouet
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.Arnold Toynbee
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.Betty Smith
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
To save time is to lengthen life.Author Unknown
No matter how long it takes, If you keep moving, One step at a time, You will reach the finish line...Unknown
