time quotes

“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. ”

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ”

Time quotes - Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. ”

“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

“In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.”

“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”

“Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.”

“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”