Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

Richard Holbrooke

We are at the brink. Time is short.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

William Shakespeare

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

Liza Minnelli

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Charles Lindbergh

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Bill Porter

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

Bill Richardson

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

Bernard Williams

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Edith Schaeffer

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

Edith Sitwell

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Wharton

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects - hardly recognizable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles - made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances. 'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters . . . any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arnold Bennett

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.

Arnold Bennett

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Arnold Bennett

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

We also want to have enough time for the landscaping to take before it is trampled.

Denise Levertov

We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.

Denis Waitley

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

Deepak Chopra

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Deepak Chopra

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

Deepak Chopra

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.