Time Quotes
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.Miguel de Cervantes
Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.Albert Einstein
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.Edward P. Tryon
The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.Patty Labelle
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.Josiah Gilbert Holland
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.Henry David Thoreau
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.Unknown
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
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.Charles E. Jefferson
Now is the time for all good men to come to.Walt Kelly
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round... as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut - Up hearts freely.Charles Dickens
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.Sydney Smith
When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.Friedrich Nietzsche
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.Robert A. Heinlein
Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.Kevin R. Hutson
When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.Frances Watkins Harpe
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.Seneca
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.Cynthia Nelms
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Harriet
May you always live in interesting times.Chinese Curse
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.Tom Hopkins
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement.Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail. ca
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.William H. Borah
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.Sir Arthur Helps
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.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.Carl Sandburg
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.William Makepeace Thackeray
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
