Famous Quotes & Sayings

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

John Lothrop Motley

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

Emily Mortimer

The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.

Josh Lawson

I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.

I usually do this at home, but we had some time to kill today.

Rebecca West

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Roy Wood

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

Rose Kennedy

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Rose Macaulay

Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

Rose Macaulay

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

Rose Macaulay

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Rebecca Solnit

When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.

Rick Warren

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

Paracelsus

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Paramahansa Yogananda

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Change your life by changing your thoughts.

Owen Hart

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Ovid

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

Pericles

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

Paul Valery

At times I think and at times I am.

Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Tsongas

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

Martin Amis

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

Martin Amis

Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.