Time Quotes

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Bill Watterson

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Stephen Hawking

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Rabindranath Tagore

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

John Wooden

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Stephen King

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Yogi Berra

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.

Terry Pratchett

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

Richard Dawkins

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Samuel Johnson

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Thomas Merton

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Nelson Mandela