Time Quotes

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.

I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way – one solid scene doesn’t have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.

The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.