Time quotes

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” George Orwell

“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.” Agatha Christie

“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.” Agatha Christie

“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.” Agatha Christie

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

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

“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.” Gore Vidal

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

“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.” Leonardo da Vinci

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

“It takes a long time to become young.” Pablo Picasso

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

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

“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.” Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

“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.” Norman Vincent Peale

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” Thomas Jefferson

“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” Franklin Roosevelt

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

“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.” Og Mandino

“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.” Og Mandino