Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Clay Shirky

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

David Ogden Stiers

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

David Sedaris

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

Deborah King

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

Ed Koch

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

Eli Roth

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

Abdul Kalam

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Amanda Hocking

You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!

Cynthia Nixon

We didn't know each other before [ the Killing Reagan], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

Anatoly Chubais

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Anne Rice

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.