Time Quotes

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.

Kurt Vonnegut

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Karl Marx

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

T. S. Eliot

To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker.

Stephen King

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Steve Jobs

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Timothy Leary

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.

Leonardo da Vinci

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Tillie Olsen

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

Jodi Picoult

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Benjamin Disraeli

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Sophocles

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton