Top 94 Time Is The Enemy Quotes
#4. We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#5. You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.
Maxwell Perkins
#6. Time is the enemy of lovers. Worse even than the frank light of day.
Joyce Carol Oates
#7. I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#8. Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.
Idries Shah
#9. The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble ... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.
Garry Kasparov
#10. The best time to stop a fight is before it starts.
The best vitamin for developing friends is B1.
The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#11. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. Silence isn't the enemy. It can bring comfort and clarity and validation. It's a reminder of time for what it is ... presence.
Kim Holden
#13. Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
Victor Davis Hanson
#14. We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage ... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.
Howard Gardner
#15. I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.
Kola Boof
#16. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Anita Diamant
#17. Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.
Sylvester Stallone
#18. Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time.
David Hieatt
#19. Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
Nikki Sixx
#20. As time went by, matters improved; the armies, especially the British and French Armies, became better at staying alive while killing larger numbers of the enemy which, though hardly a matter for satisfaction in human terms, is what well-trained armies are supposed to do.
Robin Neillands
#21. In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.
Ismail Kadare
#24. If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
Emil M. Cioran
#25. Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#26. We're in a declared war, but unless were clear about who the enemy is, we'll waste our time fighting enemies that aren't enemies at all. There's only one enemy and no matter what people do, say or react people are never the enemy. The enemy is our only enemy..
John Wimber
#27. As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.
Watchman Nee
#28. Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Voltaire
#29. Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.
John Jakes
#30. The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.
Steven Pressfield
#31. Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
Stephen Covey
#33. Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
Joe Slovo
#34. The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
Margaret Deland
#35. The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!
Douglas MacArthur
#36. Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy
Charles R. Swindoll
#37. Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
David Foster
#38. To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.
David Dudley Field II
#39. Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.
David Cameron
#40. Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#41. Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.
Joshua L. Liebman
#42. When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.
Darryl Strawberry
#43. Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.
David Hilbert
#45. Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.
Ian Fleming
#46. Each time I stopped I stripped myself of something vitally important. I was, becoming my own enemy! And I can't tell you how it hurt me when I found that out. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#47. You're not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy's also having a hard time - the only question is who breaks down first.
Rafael Eitan
#48. Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.
Tracy Morgan
#49. Life's biggest enemy is time. It kills us slowly as the illusion changes.
Debasish Mridha
#50. The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
Al Gore
#51. Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
Oprah Winfrey
#52. The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#53. The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.
Robert Breault
#54. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E.B. White
#55. There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
George S. Patton
#56. Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.
Stephen Jay Gould
#58. A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Debasish Mridha
#59. The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.
Hermann Hesse
#60. [Once war is declared, he will not waste precious time in waiting for reinforcements, nor will he return his army back for fresh supplies, but crosses the enemy's frontier without delay.
Sun Tzu
#61. We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.
Walter Lippmann
#62. Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.
Genghis Khan
#63. President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.'
Elliott Abrams
#64. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
Alice Schroeder
#65. You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you - which will be soon.
Love, D.
Richelle Mead
#66. They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come
Michael Biondi
#67. Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#68. The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'
Ric Flair
#69. We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.
Nikolai Bukharin
#70. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#71. A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
Thomas Carlyle
#72. Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to keep our parade sites and our storage centers secret and to get out of bodies every time there's an air raid or the enemy fires a rocket or something.
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. Having so much perceived free time gives the student a false sense that there's still all the time in the world to complete a given project. In essence, free time is his enemy.
Carolyn Carpeneti
#74. I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower.
Tommy Barnett
#75. Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.
Lionel Suggs
#76. We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
Bill Nelson
#77. If all we're doing is flinging words and emotions in all directions without any real consideration for the specific ways the enemy is targeting us and the promises of God that apply to us, we're mostly just wasting our time.
Priscilla Shirer
#78. When you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, you possess a resource that can give you abundant life through the longest siege of the enemy. The enemy can camp at your doorstep for an indefinite period of time and it won't matter to you. The Holy Spirit is your indwelling source of
David Jeremiah
#79. People work around you and next to you and the universe waits for the perfect time to whisper in your ear, "Look this way." There is someone in your life right now who may end up being your enemy, your wife, or your boss. Lift up your head and you may notice.
Amy Poehler
#80. Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans.
Ishmael Reed
#81. By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
Chuck Palahniuk
#82. If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.
John Ensign
#83. The voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.
Genesis P-Orridge
#84. Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.
Jack Campbell
#85. 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.
Omar N. Bradley
#86. Some of them screamed for locks of his hair, to which the blushing general replied, "Really, ladies, this is the first time I was ever surrounded by the enemy!
S.C. Gwynne
#87. There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.
Brian Van Reet
#88. Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are willing to stay in their seats. Naturally, compression is necessary. So are the exclusion and amalgamation of characters so that the viewer does not become bewildered.
Alex Gibney
#89. The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.
It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for
heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not
the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we
drink in every night.
John Piper
#90. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett
#91. The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.
Frank Church
#92. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The
C.S. Lewis
#94. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
Carla H. Krueger
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