Time Quotes

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the 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

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

William Shakespeare

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pablo Picasso

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

In a time of universal deceit - Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

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

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Ten

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

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.

Eric Pio

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - All they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Sir Arthur Helps

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andr Gide

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Chilo

Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001

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

Vinny Nayak

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

John McEnroe

If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.

Benito Mussolini, The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, 1935

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Hebrew Prove

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

O. A. Battista

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville