Quotes
Quotes about Time
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
What you have said I will consider; what you have to say I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
At all times it is better to have a method.
Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike.
In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness, And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
These are the times that try men's souls.
