Time Quotes
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.Jerry Seinfeld
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.Hal Borland
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.Charles M. Schulz
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.Eudora Welty
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
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
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.Lou Reed
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.Epictetus
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
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
When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.Harold Walke
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
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.Albert Schweitze
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.Horace Greeley
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
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
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.Honore de Balzac
He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.Henry Fielding, "Jonathan Wild".
Long stormy spring - Time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.Thomas Carlyle
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.Plutarch
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.Virginia Woolf
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.Thomas Carlyle
Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.Sallust
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred - And - First blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.Jacob A. Riis
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
