Time Quotes About Life & Change – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold J. Toynbee

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Luke Ford

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

John Cheever

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

Richard Russo

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Will Durant

The future is the worst thing about the present.

Gustave Flaubert

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Marianne Williamson

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Major Owens

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

John Sayles

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

John Boehner

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

James Longstreet

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.

Mike Pence

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Thomas Merton

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Jules Renard

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Honore de Balzac

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

Sitting Bull

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you "don't have the time".

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Lord Chesterfield

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Sallust

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Douglas Horton

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Richard M. Nixon

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

W. Somerset Maugham

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Szasz

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.

Leigh Steinberg

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Henry Ellis

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

Julian Bond

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

William Shakespeare

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

David Antin

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

Lisa Guerrero