Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Chamfort

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

Myrtle Reed

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Miranda Kerr

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

Mignon McLaughlin

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Mignon McLaughlin

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Mignon McLaughlin

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

John Ruskin

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

John Ruskin

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Matthew Arnold

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Matthew Arnold

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Matthew Arnold

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

Matthew Arnold

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Matthew Arnold

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

Matthew Arnold

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Maya Angelou

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Max Beerbohm

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Matthew Hale

Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

Matthew Hale

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Matsuo Basho

Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It

Patricia Briggs

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Pablo Neruda

Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks...

Pablo Neruda

Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

Philip Zimbardo

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip Zimbardo

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

Philip Larkin

What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?

LaVell Edwards

I just feel that you reach a point when its time to move on.

Philip James Bailey

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.

Petra Haden

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.