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Quotes including the word “time”.

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Aeschylus

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Aeschylus

Time brings all things to pass.

Akhmatova

t was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Aristotles

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree, at the right time and for the right purpose, in the right way, - that is not easy.

Isaac Asimov

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

Miguel Asturias

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

Bach

There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Baudelaire

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Baudelaire

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Baudelaire

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Brendan Behan

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Heinrich Bell

A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

Mario Benedetti

We are born sad and die sad, but in the meantime, we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

Mario Benedetti

Five minutes is enough to dream a whole life, time is so relevant.

Henri Bergson

Time is an invention and nothing else.

Hector Berlioz

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Karen Blixen

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Karen Blixen

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Borges

“You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.”

Giordano Bruno

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Giordano Bruno

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Charles Bukowski

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Caesar

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Cervantes

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Cervantes

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Chanel

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

Guevara Che

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Leonard Cohen

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Confucius

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

Confucius

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

Gustave Courbet

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim.

Gustave Courbet

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Rene Crevel

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

Marie Curie

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.

Marie Curie

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”

Dante

There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable.

Dante

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Dante

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Darwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Rene Depestre

Indian high chiefs were frolicking freely with young Arawak beauties.... Barons and Marquis from the court of Louis XIV were playing leapfrog on the grass.... In the motley crowd, I also saw Simon Bolivar.... The time of masks had assembled three centuries of human history.

Rene Depestre

The relationships between consciousness and reality are extremely complex.... It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society.

Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing; sometimes says the most.

Walt Disney

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Umberto Eco

"Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

Umberto Eco

Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

Thomas Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.

Thomas Eliot

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

Thomas Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

Exupery

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Exupery

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Faulkner

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.

Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Du Fu

Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can.

Galeano

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gauguin

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Jean Genet

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Khalil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Goethe

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Nikolai Gogol

“However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

Gracian

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Hafez

And yet, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me.

Hawking

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

Hawking

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

Hippocrates

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

Homer

There is time for many words, and there is also time for sleep.

Max Horkheimer

Pragmatism reflects a society that has no time to remember and meditate.

Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Juan Jimenez

My only two weapons: time and silence.

Carl Jung

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Immanuel Kant

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Kawabata

“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Kawabata

Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”

Kazantzakis

Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.

Kepler

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

L. Martin King,

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Kornaros

"So whoever has at some time been a slave to passion, let him come and hearken to what is here written"

Srecko Kosovel

These awesome times, these restless times, are playing nervously with what we are looking for, in every direction, crushing and killing dreams.

Lamartine

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated

Stanislaw Lem

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Jack London

I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Jack London

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Lucian

“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in your hand and read all the time, you do not under­stand a single thing that you read, but you are like the donkey that listens to the lyre and wags his ears.

Andre Malraux

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

Andre Malraux

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Nelson Mandela

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

Nelson Mandela

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Nelson Mandela

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

E.L. Masters,

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Menander

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

Menander

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

Freddie Mercury

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Freddie Mercury

“What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

John Milton

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Gabriela Mistral

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.

Moliere

We die only once, and for such a long time.”

Montaigne

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

Nabokov

While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Aziz Nesin

You came back after a long time I now love longing for you more than I love you

Nietzsche

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

Noonuccal

We are the wonder tales of Dream Time,

Ovid

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Ovid

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

Amos Oz

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Okot P_Bitek

He never jokes/ With anybody/ He says/ He has no time/ To sit around the evening fire.

Charlie Parker

Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.

Pericles

Time is the best counselor.

Pericles

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pessoa

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

Edith Piaf

Love goes on a journey, like I do One day I'll find it By the time I see its face I'll recognize it right away.

Jean Piaget

Intelligence, the most plastic and at the same time the most durable structural equilibrium of behaviour, is essentially a system of living and acting operations.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Pindar

Time is the best preserver of righteous men.

Sylvia Plath

When you are insane, you are busy being insane all the time.

Plutarch

“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”

Jackson Pollock

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock

Poussin

It is impossible to work at the same time upon frontispieces of books: a Virgin: at the picture for the congregation of St. Louis, at the designs for the gallery, and for the king's tapestry! I have only a feeble head, and am not aided by anyone!

Elvis Presley

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Elvis Presley

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Elvis Presley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Raymond Queneau

Time is money, so give me some money to think.

Racine

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Renoir

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Renoir

“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”

Jose Rizal

I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”

Robespierre

lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

Rochefoucauld

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Jacqueline Romilly

I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.

Jacqueline Romilly

I am still sensitive to beauty. I would say, almost more so! The objects are somewhat distorted, blurry like impressionist paintings that strike you, sometimes, and draw you in. But external beauty remains transitory, whereas the beauty of a text, of a sentence, is an idea that I will keep within me an entire day.

Gabrielle Roy

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Sappho

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time, will think of us.

Saramago

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

Sartre

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

Schiller

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Shakespeare

All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.

Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Bernard Shaw

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Percy Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Frank Sinatra

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so you can gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Stendhal

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Igor Stravinsky

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

Strindberg

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

Strindberg

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

Tagore

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

Talleyrand

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Thales

Know the value of time.

Dylan Thomas

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Toulouse

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves..

Leon Trotsky

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Leon Trotsky

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Paul Valery

At times I think and at times I am.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Vivaldi

Springtime is upon us. The birds celebrate her return with festive song, and murmuring streams are softly caressed by the breezes

Vonnegut

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Derek Walcott

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Durant Will

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Tennessee Williams

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

L. Wittgenstein

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming

Wollstonecraft

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

B. W. Yeats

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Yourcenar

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Stefan Zweig

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.