Quotes
Quotes about Time
Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.
(Pistol:) And tidings do I bring and lucky joys And golden times and happy news of price. (Falstaff:) I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.
In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since time will not stay, We'll add night to the day, Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.
When it draws near to witching time of night.
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.
In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.
The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real. -Sara Paddison.
There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. -Grenville Kleiser.
There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene, With armes full strong and largely displayed, But of their leaves they were disarayde The bodie bigge, and mightely pight, Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight; Whilome had bene the king of the field, And mochell mast to the husband did yielde, And with his nuts larded many swine: But now the gray mosse marred his rine; His bared boughes were beaten with stormes, His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes, His honour decayed, his brauches sere.
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.
March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
