Time Quotes

Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Che

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles, 1966

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Denis Watley

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Francis Kennedy

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry S. Haskins

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

D. March

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Sir Francis Bacon

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Boris Becke

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

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

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

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Carl Sandburg

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

Selwyn Champion

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter - And to write it in the books of law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - Nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841