Time Quotes

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

You can't have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles Kettering

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

V. S. Pritchett

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Dorothy L. Sayers

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

Margaret Walker

He could not die when the trees were green,
For he loved the time too well.

Time, you old gypsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan Just for one day?

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry this time my people were led by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge. Germany, good luck.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

William Henry Hudson

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Walter Lippmann

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Tim Berners-Lee

For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Long before winter came the chances had been diminished owing to the repeated delays in the advance that were caused by bad roads, and mud. The 'black earth' of the Ukraine could be turned into mud by ten minutes rain - stopping all movement until it dried. That was a heavy handicap in a race with time. It was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops. Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

Gerd von Rundstedt

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Frances Willard