Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

Franz Grillparzer

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

Franz Grillparzer

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Jeanette Winterson

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Jewel

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Jewel

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

Jewel

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Jeaniene Frost

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

Jean-Paul Sartre

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

George William Russell

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

George Sand

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

Jean Paul

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Jasper Fforde

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

Hippocrates

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Eugene Delacroix

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.

Eugene Delacroix

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Eugene Ionesco

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Eugene Ionesco

We haven't the time to take out time.

Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Ernest Hemingway

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Ernest Hemingway

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Eudora Welty

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

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.