Time Quotes

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.

The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it-the precise time when it is too late.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock - to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.

You undergraduates who see me for the first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre - a consorter with Communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.