Time Quotes

Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

John Dryden

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Harris

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.

Tim Burton, Burton On Burton

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Alicia Barnhart

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Heinrich Heine

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNa

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand de Jouvenal

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy - One.

Richard M. Devos

Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.

Robert Browning

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

M. Grundle

If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Chinese Prove

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Captain Lawrence Oates, last words

Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

George Gordon Byron

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

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

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

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

You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

Horace

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.

Andrew Schneide

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor.

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.

Frank Vanderlip

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese prove

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffe

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

Francis Bacon