Time Quotes

This is India's time, and India is now moving forward. We have reached here after centuries of waiting. We all have been waiting for this era, this period of time. Now, we will not stop. We will reach the heights of development.

The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.

In time and with water, everything changes.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present.

O Time, thou that consumest all things! O envious age, whereby all things are consumed!

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Space I can recover. Time, never.

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

The issue of a battle is the result of an instant, of a thought. There is the advance, with its various combinations, the battle is joined, the struggle goes on a certain time, the decisive moment presents itself, a spark of genius discloses it, and the smallest body of reserves accomplish victory.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.