Time Quotes

This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.

Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish".

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata".

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.

Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

What a time! What a civilization!

Cicero

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Mark Twain

Everybody likes to go their own way - - To choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Author Unknown

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

Time eases all things.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

Mark Yost

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

Frances Burnett

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Sandra

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

George Orwell

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, Man and Superman, 1903

Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.

Donna Summe

You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by.

Eric Pio

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thomas Fulle

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

Men have no right to put the well - Being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Edmund Burke