Quotes
Quotes about Time
I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.
The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fallâthink of it, ALWAYS.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. -Isak Dinesen.
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. -Ingrid Bengis.
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.
All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a connaltre l'homme, plus on apprend a estimer le chien.]
I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He tumbles on his nose: But quickly jumping up again, Like lightning on he goes!
