Another Time Quotes

• Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Satisfaction, Should, One Time

  8 Copy quote

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

  118 Copy quote

• In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Might, Wonder, Has Beens

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

  Sappho

  Remember

  Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications

  91 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Knowledge, Knows

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Discourse'

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

  Mencius

  Evil, Negative, Goodness

  33 Copy quote

• Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Night, Space, Literature

  20 Copy quote

• It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.

  John Lewis

  People, Together, Needs

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

  150 Copy quote

  Show source

• In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Beach, Majesty

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Thinking, Dentist

  4 Copy quote

• When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Music, Beautiful, Art

  59 Copy quote

• But that is another story and shall be told another time.

  Michael Ende

  Stories, Never Ending Story

  4 Copy quote

• We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Clever, Carpe Diem

  8 Copy quote

• At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.

  Empedocles

  Love, Hatred, Together

  81 Copy quote

• Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this — standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls — was much worse.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Evil, Caves

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Rain, Sunshine

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Trying

  14 Copy quote

• I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

  Ron Rash

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "'Nothing Gold' Stays Long In Appalachia". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 16, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

  Charles Portis

  Struggle, Heart, Air

  4 Copy quote

• I'm a huge Star Trek fan. I've seen all the shows, I've seen all the movies, but ultimately I just want a 2-hour movie that takes me to another time and place - something that entertains me.

  Damon Lindelof

  Stars, Fans, Want

  "Damon Lindelof Talks Star Trek Into Darkness, the Editing Process, Why They Changed the Order of the First Two Scenes, Trek 3, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

  Esme Raji Codell

  Space, Library, Platforms

  4 Copy quote

• Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.

  Edge

  Dad, Wwe, Stories

  10 Copy quote

• I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.

  Che Guevara

  Reading, Daddy, Communism

  23 Copy quote

• I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

  Michel Foucault

  Memories, Echoes, Hopelessly In Love

  235 Copy quote

• So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Growing Up, Waiting, Unbearable

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Beacon Press

  96 Copy quote

  Show source