Time Quotes

Elbert hubbard - how many a man has thrown up his hands at a time...
Napoleon i - to robert fulton what, sir, would you make a ship...
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
Jim Samuels
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
Australian Aboriginal Prove
Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.
Stella Terrill Mann
Jim fiebig - all the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average...
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
Edward P. Tryon
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1, 000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
How can a guy hit and think at the same time.
Lawrence Peter Berra
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Benjamin Disraeli
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody
I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960.
John Lennon
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Seneca
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
Henry Steele Commage
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. Taylo
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
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
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht
Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Truth is the daughter of time.
Aulus Gellius
Even a stopped clock is right two times a day.
Marie von Ebner - Eschenbach
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Nigerian Prove
Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Gloria Swanson
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Francis Kennedy
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.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis