Time Quotes
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.Barbara Paley
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.William Makepeace Thackeray
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.Sir Francis Bacon
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.Blaise Pascal
Lost time is never found again.Benjamin Franklin
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.Swordfish
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour".
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.Alfred De Musset
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.Rene Descartes
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.Eric Hoffe
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.Jim
Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.Allphonse de Lamartine
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.Vincent McNa
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.Leonard Bernstein
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.Erica Jong
The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.Henry David Thoreau
Remember that lost time does not return.Thomas a Kempis
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 greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.Hellen Kelle
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.Albert Schweitze
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.Victor Hugo
Time is the least thing we have.Ernest Hemingway
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.Eudora Welty
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.Paul Valery
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.W. Somerset Maugham
There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Conan Doyle
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.Joyce
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!Peter de Jage
