Time Quotes

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. I was the first composer to explore, so to speak, musical outer space.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!

Robert Browning

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.

Stonewall Jackson

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were—Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened — an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness. There had never been anything in this place, nor was anything ever intended to occupy this place...

Clifford D. Simak

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Charles Babbage

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e. g., abut space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics). It has taught us new methods of thinking (complimentarity), which are applicable far beyond physics.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

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.

Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.

Frédéric Chopin

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say 'No! I don't want it right now,' that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

Alfred Rosenberg

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.