Quotes About Time

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

The War, ' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

Peace that follows battle is a futile peace. It is time to count dead and to assess which side stands closer to the win.

Make not the scars of yesterdayMake you bitter todayYesterday has passedAnd like water in a river once passed Can never be returnedThe KhoiSan Book of Wisdom

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.

History is the same story with different costumes.

I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.