Time Quotes

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

~ Saint Augustine

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

~ Kim Kardashian

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

~ James Agate

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

~ Chuck Hagel

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

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

~ Vladimir Lenin

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~ Wendell Berry

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

~ Robert Harris

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

~ Margaret Mead

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

~ Robert Kennedy

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

~ Wade Davis

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

~ David Horowitz

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.

~ Philippe Cousteau

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

~ Edward Everett

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'

~ Jennifer Sky

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

~ Alton Brown

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

~ Josiah Strong

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

~ John Barth

Time is my greatest enemy.

~ Evita Peron

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

~ Margaret Mead

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

~ Benjamin Harrison

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

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

~ Will Durant

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

~ Thomas Vilsack

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

~ Jim Demint

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

~ Lester B. Pearson

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

~ Joseph Rotblat

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

~ Natalie Dormer

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

~ Mohsin Hamid

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

~ John Henrik Clarke

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

~ Sylvia Earle

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

~ Gever Tulley

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

~ Laurie Garrett

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

~ Francis Bacon