Top 100 Time Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best time quotes ever written, picked out of the full time archive on QuoteForever. You will find Alfred Lord Tennyson, Douglas Adams, Aeschylus and Albert Einstein among them.

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of ... - Virginia Woolf 1

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his ... - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much ... - William Cobbett 3

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

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Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

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Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

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Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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Time is our present breath.

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When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

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Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

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The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

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Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.

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Dogs, ye have had your day!

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A day may sink or save a realm.

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Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

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Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

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CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

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So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

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I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

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Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.

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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

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This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

31

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

33

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

35

Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

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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.

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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

38

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

40

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

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Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.

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You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.

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We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

45

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

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A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

47

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

48

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

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A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

50

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

51

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

52

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

53

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

54

We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.

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The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor to anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

57

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

58

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, "Oh! I have a baby!" So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.

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Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

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Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

62

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

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Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

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

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Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

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Now' is the watchword of the wise.

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There's time enough, but none to spare.

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Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

70

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

71

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

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We are each other’s angels, we meet when it is time.

73

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

74

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

75

The living moment is everything.

76

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

77

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

78

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

79

I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding

80

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

81

Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.

82

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

83

You may not be able to predict the time of a tornado, earthquake or the Lord's return. But you can know for a fact that He is coming back. Work today to share the escape route of God's grace with others, before the night cometh.

84

Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.

85

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

86

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

87

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

88

It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

89

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

90

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

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As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

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Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

94

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

95

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

96

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.

97

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

98

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

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Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

100

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

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