Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Youngblood

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

James Freeman Clarke

In the spirit of faith let us begin each day, and we shall be sure to " redeem the time " which it brings to us, by changing it into something definite and eternal. There is a deep meaning in this phrase of the apostle, to redeem time. We redeem time, and do not merely use it. We transform it into eternity by living it aright.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....

James Gleick

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....

J. R. R. Tolkien

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Isaac Asimov

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

Immanuel Kant

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

David Thomas

But Vince was insisting that as long as there was time on the clock, we had a shot. He was right and he was the one who took us there.

Hopefully, it's just a little snag. When he said he had discomfort, that was the first time he had said that all spring.

Paul Allaire

We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.

Leonardo da Vinci

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

Leonardo da Vinci

The moment has no time.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Leonardo da Vinci

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Leonardo da Vinci

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Leonardo da Vinci

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

Leonardo da Vinci

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Oscar Wilde

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Paul Fussell

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Paul Gauguin

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

Lillian Hellman

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

LeAnn Rimes

There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

Laurence Olivier

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

Neal A. Maxwell

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

Neal A. Maxwell

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

Muhammad Iqbal

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Muhammad Ali

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

Mitch Hedberg

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

Maria Bamford

Time flies when you are anxious!