Time Quotes

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Aeschylus

Perhaps in time the so - Called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurbe

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

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

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

H. A. Overstreet

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Charles Dudley Warne

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Howard Aiken

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E. F. Benson

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

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

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante Alighieri

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Gene Roddenberry

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all - wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucke

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Hellen Kelle

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

George Sanders

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. On assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Earl Warren

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

There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter.

Unknown

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields