time quotes

“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ”

“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. ”

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ”

“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. ”

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ”

“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.”

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.”

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. ”

“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ”

“If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.”

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ”

“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. ”

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. ”

“Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. ”

“I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well. ”

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! ”

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. ”

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ”

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. ”

“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. ”

“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”

“Friends show their love in times of trouble. ”

“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ”

“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”

“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”