Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

Henry David Thoreau

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

Henry David Thoreau

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

Henry David Thoreau

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

Henry David Thoreau

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Henry David Thoreau

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Henry David Thoreau

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Henry David Thoreau

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Henry David Thoreau

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

Henry David Thoreau

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

H. L. Mencken

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Jennifer Egan

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

Jean Rostand

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone.

Jean Rostand

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Jim Bishop

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jean Ingelow

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

James Agee

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

James A. Baldwin

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

James A. Baldwin

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Jacqueline Winspear

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Jacqueline Winspear

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

George Harrison

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

Gaston Bachelard

Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.