Time Quotes
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.E. B. White
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.Calvin Coolidge
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime.Paul Williams, Das Energi
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.William Blackstone
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.Unknown
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.H. L. Mencken
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
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com weblog, 10 - 09 - 04
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
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
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.Oscar Wilde
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.George Orwell
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.William Faulkne
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.John F. Kennedy
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson
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
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.Unknown
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.Albert Camus
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.T. S. Eliot
This is no time to make new enemies.Voltaire, when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.Jay Leno
No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.Vincent Van Gogh
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
