Time Quotes

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

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Clarence Day

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

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

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

David Bowie

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

William Blackstone

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

Sir B. Brodie

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form 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.

Gaius Petronius

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

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

Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

Albert Einstein

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Sometimes on the way to our dreams, We get lost and find an even better one.

Unknown

To us, the moment 8: 17 A. M. means something - Something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - Did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

Aldous Huxley

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety - Nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein, Sc

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas a Kempis

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

Carol Burnett

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle, Physics

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King J

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

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