“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
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“That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
“We must use time creatively.”
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.”
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
“I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.”
“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.”
“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.”
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.”