Best 8519 quotes in «time quotes» category

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

My work has always been the product of my time.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.