Time Quotes by Plutarch, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Susan Hill, Winston Groom, John Milton, Douglas Coupland and many others.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
The calendar? A mere convention.
The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Nothing is ours except time.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
All things flow, nothing abides.
Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as “nutty methods;” 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as “a complete waste of time.”
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.
By-and-by has no end.
By-and-by has no end.
The only great spirit of our time.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Time is the image of eternity.
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.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.
Even God cannot change the past.
I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking,’ but I don’t have that much time.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don’t have time.
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
The French have no such expression as ‘killing time.’ In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is ‘passing time,’ which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.
Time is the devourer of all things.
One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.
Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Each hour comes with some little faggot of God’s will fastened upon its back.
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
Believe me, wise men don’t say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow’s life is too late; live today.
Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say; Today itself’s too late; the wise lived yesterday.
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
Believe me, wise men don’t say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow’s life is too late; live today.
Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say; Today itself’s too late; the wise lived yesterday.
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse‘ d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
This is a deeply spiritual issue…Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That’s the issue before us.. and it’s being played out in the world of the environment.
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.
The living moment is everything.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
If you’re not really having a good time, it’s not worth it.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.
The surest poison is time.
All great achievements require time.
Time be thine,
And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
Eternity – waste of time.
I don’t know what’s going on, and I’m probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we’re being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it’s over.
Transitions are a time for reflection, and a time for looking forward.
There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein‘s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
I have so much to do! And there’s so little time!
There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others – there is nothing else.
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was.
You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
The more you think, the more time you have.
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
I’d had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
The day is conscious of itself.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day?
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
I’m one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That’s why I’m happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
All the king‘s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the past together again. So let’s remember: Don’t try to saw sawdust.
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
You may delay, but time will not.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.
I’m becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that’s what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
Punctuality is the thief of time
When Time is spent, Eternity begins.
It was some great times and some great moments… I’m proud to be a WWE alumni. If it wasn’t for my time there, there’s no way I’d be excelling at Fox and acting.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I’ve been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it’s the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you’ll get up and do it again
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it’s the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.
Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.
Time discovers truth.
Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.
Time that devours all things.
Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF’s lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
I don’t suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don’t have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn’t hear.
We are each other’s angels, we meet when it is time.
For four – fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
My time is now.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.
What’s that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!
The past, the future: – two eternities!
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
As long as one accepts “time” tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
I hear people say, “It’s not the quantity of time that’s important; it’s the quality.” Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn’t happen in a hurry.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time–weeks, months, years, decades even.
It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
We lose our time because we lose our attention
It’s sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.
Our planet has run out of patience. So has our sense of justice. It is time to step it up – and up – and up – until we reach the only goal that really matters: peace among people and peace between people and nature.
Writing is mentally stimulating; it’s like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
Nothing is swifter than our years.
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Every time you wink the stars move.
When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
No matter how long it’s been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you’ll stay in faith, your time is coming.
Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That’s probably why they get along so well.
Times don’t change. Men do.
There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
Time, as he passes us, has a dove‘s wing,
Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
This moment is as it should be.
It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.
I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Unpunctuality is a vile habit.
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
We need a sense of the value of time – that is, of the best way to divide one’s time into one’s various activities.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It’s moving, it’s changing, so appreciate what’s good about right now and be ready for what’s next.
How can I tell,” said the man, “that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don’t waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life
Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, ‘Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.
The only thing that matters is the theater!
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child’s toy Slinky.
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
We must use time creatively.
We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
Better late than never.
When the time is right, you just got to do it.
There ‘s a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
Heaven isnot a place, and it isnot atime.Heaven isbeing perfect.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man‘s enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
As long as you know yourself and you got good people around you and you passionate about what you do, that’s all that matters because at the end of the day, you go to sleep with the people you love, you wake up with the people you love, and you spend your time with the people you love.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Let every man be master of his time.
Killing time is not an easy job.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.
Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.
Is more than time enough to find a world.
Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
A boy‘s story is the best that is ever told.
There was a time when time did not yet exist.
Noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.
That only treads on flowers.
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.
I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.
The great myth of our work-intense era is ‘quality time.’ We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that’s the main reason I’m here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.
The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture. It’s the Golden Rule – the simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.
Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
I enjoy the time passing. I think it’s a privilege to be in friendship with time.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Parliaments are the great lie of our time.
I don’t have time’ is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don’t have enough time, we are admitting that we don’t have enough life.
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
My father Time is weak and gray
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands!
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands!
But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra – sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.
Time is infinitely more precious than money, and there is nothing common between them. You cannot accumulate time; you cannot borrow time; you can never tell how much time you have left in the Bank of Life. Time is life.
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Whatever begins, also ends.
When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it’s well to remember that Things Take Time.
Time is a kindly God.
We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
But there comes a time in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
To comprehend a man’s life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.
I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.
Live with no time-out.
I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Do not be attached to the past or wait for the future. Be grateful for each day, that is enough. I do not believe in a future world, I deny the past. I believe entirely in the present. Employ your entire body and mind in the eternal now.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an “old man”. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an “old” book.
The passing minute is every man’s equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
Today’s family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex … about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t do anything.
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.
Before you know it it’s 3 am and you’re 80 years old and you can’t remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.
Time is a face on the water.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.
Every time you win, you’re reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
But an eternal Now does always last.
I’m going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
