Time Quotes

Hector berlioz - every composer knows the anguish and despair...
Oliver bevan - playing seems to be both disinterested and...
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
Stephen King
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - - Always.
Albert Schweitze
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.
St. Francis of Assissi
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
Huey Long
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
May you always live in interesting times.
Chinese Curse
George moore - a great artist is always before his time or...
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas H. Huxley
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
Francis Bacon
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.
Richard M. Nixon
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
Author Unknown
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Elizabeth II
Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
Andy Warhol
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
Napoleon I
If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
The time to reapir the roof is when the sun is shining.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
Charles Dickens
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...
Samuel Smiles
We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
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
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Author Unknown
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
Dogen Zenji
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
100 invested at 7 interest for 100 years will become 100, 000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
Lazarus Long
What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
Alain
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Robertson Davies
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Johann von Schille
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
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
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann von Goethe
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero
I used to wake up at 4 A. M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
James Thurbe