Time Quotes
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.Mortimer Adle
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.Dean Gooderham Acheson
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?Scott Adams
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.Saul David Alinsky
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...Charles Dickens
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.Plutarch
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - - But a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.Charles E. Wilson
We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. On assassination of President John F Kennedy.Earl Warren
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.Frank Herbert
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.Jean Cocteau
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.Muriel Spark
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.Jonathan Swift
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.Walt West
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.Stephen King
I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.Mae West
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.Nancy Asto
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - Not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.Shimon Peres
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.Unknown
Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.Richard I. Winword
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.Miguel de Cervantes
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.Clarence Day
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.E. B. White
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.Josh Billings
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.Mark Twain
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.C. J. Jung
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".