Quotes About Time

Now he belongs to the ages.

Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.

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.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.