Time Quotes

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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

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman…

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.

I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

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

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Louis de Bernières

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

George Saintsbury

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

Henry Charles Carey

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Alfred de Vigny

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.