Time Quotes

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - It was gone.
Author Unknown
William james - the man whose acquisitions stick is the man who...
Emily dickinson - to live is so startling it leaves little time for...
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig - Leaves for the naked truth.
Hubert Humphrey
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuh
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. Battista
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffe
Charles e. wilson - no plan can prevent a stupid person from doing...
Away back in that time - In 1492 - There was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man... What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.
Chitto Harjo
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Charles Dickens
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
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can? t get away this time!!!
General Douglas McArthu
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - That the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor, "A Wreath of Roses".
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be... and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.
Ecclesiates 1922 Bible
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoove
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan
My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.
Fred Allen
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
I now have no time to be tired.
Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888.
Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.
Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.
Real Live Preache
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
Ernest Leroy Boye
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
Book of Common Praye
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.
Frank Herbert, Dune