- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the first time that nations around the world had officially agreed that climate change was a problem and that concrete steps should be taken to avoid its worst effects.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our long-term prosperity depends critically on the ability of world leaders to make politically difficult decisions at a time when the global economy is still vulnerable on so many fronts.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a painful and protracted era of little or no economic growth. This would be a tragedy not just for Greece and for Europe, but for the world.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020