Time Quotes
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.Peter Quennell
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.Mark Twain
When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.I Ching
I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.W. H. Davies
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
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - - But a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.Charles E. Wilson
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Leo Tolstoy
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Every time we say, Let there be! in any form, something happens.Stella Terrill Mann
Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed.Angel Blessing
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.Job 1414 Bible Hebrew
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long - Lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.Immanuel Kant
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.Charles De Gaulle
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.James Goldsmith
Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.Jalal ud - Din Rumi
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.Eric Hoffe
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.Vincent Van Gogh
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.Elie Wiesel
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.Sarah Brady
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.John Cleese
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We? re looking for something, though we? re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2003
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.Leo Buscaglia
The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer.Sheila M. Kelly
