Time Quotes - Page 15

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.

Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

How did it get so late so soon?

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.

I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

I believe it is peace for our time.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

We all need to be blind sometimes in order to see.

It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

Sometimes Allah withholds something from you, not because you don't deserve it, but because you deserve better!

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

These are the times that try men's souls.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.