time quotes

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

“The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”

“My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.”

“No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.”

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”

“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”

“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

“It takes a long time to become young.”

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

“Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Time quotes - A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

“A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.”

“Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.”

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. ”

Time quotes - In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”

“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ”

Time quotes - This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”

“My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. ”