Time Quotes

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Oscar Wilde

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Richard Ben Sapir

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

George Eliot

Still let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

Abraham Lincoln

Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

William Ewart Gladstone, The Lif

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.http://www.beliefnet.com/story/159/story_15928_1.html

M Scott Peck

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possibly go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Terry Pratchett

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Orson Scott Card

What would Deftmenes be if we went around obeying orders all the time?' 'They might be ruling the Carpet,' said Pismire. 'Ha!' said Brocando, 'but the trouble about obeying orders is, it becomes a habit. And then everything depends on who's giving the orders.

Terry Pratchett

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

Paulo Coelho

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Max Lerner

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

C.S. Lewis

Day, n. A period of twenty four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Stephen King

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Thomas Sowell

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

Michael Jordan

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann