Time Quotes

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Orson Scott Card

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Dan Millman

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Thomas Carlyle

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Samuel Levenson

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Molly Ivins

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Abraham Lincoln

At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.

Neil Gaiman

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Christopher Hitchens

If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.

Orson Scott Card

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Ronald Reagan

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Bertrand Russell

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Phyllis Diller

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

Bertrand Russell