Time Quotes
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.Bertolt Brecht
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.H. L. Mencken
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.Lyndon B. Johnson
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.Sun Bea
When times are good, be happy, but when time are bad consider; God has made the one as well as the other.Bible, Ecclesaistes 7: 14
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.E. B. White
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw
In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.Abigail Van Buren
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
I wasted time, now time doth waste me.William Shakespeare, Richard II
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
Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.Albert Einstein
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657)
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.E. B. White
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.Unknown
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....Douglas Noel Adams
Every time we say, Let there be in any form, something happens.Stella Terrill Mann
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
Have patience awhile slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.Author Unknown
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.H. L. Mencken
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.Hector Berlioz
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.Edward De Bono
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.George Chapman
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.Helen Merrell Lynd
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
