Time Quotes

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Charles Grodin

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.

Harold Walke

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Lynda Barry

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw Lec

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

If you treat people right they will treat you right - Ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Prove

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

B. J. Gupta

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

The future comes one day at a time.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylo

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

Franklin Roosevelt

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Terry Pratchett

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - The wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - For precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard Byrd