Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Rostand

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

Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Golda Meir

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Harold Wilson

In politics a week is a very long time.

Harriet Martineau

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Halldor Laxness

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

Iain Banks

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

Hugh Prather

I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

Howard Zinn

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

Howard Nemerov

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.

Hortense Calisher

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

Horace

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Horace

On day is pressed on by another.

Tim Ryan

He said, 'This is Tim Ryan's new congressional district,'

He said, 'OK kid, time to make a decision,'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

George Bernard Shaw

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

George Bernard Shaw

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

George Bernard Shaw

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Gary Larson

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

Frederick William Faber

Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.

Fred Brooks

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

Franz Kafka

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

Franz Kafka

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

Eric Zorn

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Erich Fromm

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.