Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

C. S. Lewis

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

C. S. Lewis

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

C. S. Lewis

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Alan Ladd

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

Djuna Barnes

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

Diane Wakoski

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

David Guetta

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Jane Austen

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Jane Austen

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Edward Said

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Jane Fonda

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness