Time Quotes - Page 24

• Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Love, Dream, Too Late

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• People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

  Glenn Frey

  Love, Running, Dream

  Song: River Of Dreams

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• I believe it is peace for our time.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Peace, War, Believe

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

  Nel Noddings

  Relationship, Education, Teaching

  Nel Noddings (1984). “Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Love, Responsibility, Mean

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• That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

  Lauren Miller

  Funny, Life, Future

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• My time on this world is limited, but the things I can do with that time are not.

  Jeb Corliss

  World, Limits, Skydiving

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• Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

  Alfred de Musset

  Inspirational, Attitude, Women

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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• My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

  John Wozniak

  Play, Brain, Nightmare

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• Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

  George Allen

  Winning, Littles, Reborn

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• One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Running, Believe

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• Time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Innovation, Management

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

  Kevin Kelly

  Stress, Passion, Ideas

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• Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.

  Charles Fillmore

  Men, Space, Giving

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• In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

  Voltaire

  Country, Failure, England

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• I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

  Peter Abrahams

  Long Ago, Magic, Consciousness

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• There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

  Lord Byron

  Feelings, Torture, Shakes

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.269, Delphi Classics

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• Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Trust, Character

  John Locke (1778). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.46

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• Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .

  John Adams

  Religious, Real, Fall

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• If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Knows, Ifs

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Discourse'

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• Time elaborately thrown away.

  Edward Young

  Thrown

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1803). “Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life”, p.382

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