Time Quotes

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

C. J. Jung

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

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Alicia Barnhart

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Willem de Kooning

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

Henry van Dyke

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

Lewis Grizzard

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

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Geri Weitzman

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas H. Huxley

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Clarence Day

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Benjamin McLane Spock

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

Sometimes... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.

Matthew Ryan

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.

Mahatma Gandhi

I feel like a million tonight - - - But one at a time.

Mae West

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

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmache

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

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!

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde