Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

George Ade

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

Garrison Keillor

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Frank Woolley

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

Francois Fenelon

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

Francois Fenelon

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

George Crabbe

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

Edward T. Hall

People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along....

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

Janina Gavankar

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

Hermann Hesse

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

Hermann Hesse

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

Hermann Hesse

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Henry Taylor

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

Joseph Addison

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Joseph Addison

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Jose Mujica

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself,

Jose Canseco

Time travel is possible. Will explain later

Jorge Luis Borges

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Jorge Luis Borges

The time for your labor has been granted.

Joni Mitchell

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Jonathan Swift

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Kelley Armstrong

And he says I have lousy timing

Khaled Hosseini

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Khalil Gibran

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.