Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Taylor

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Thurber

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

James Thurber

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

James Montgomery

Time is eternity begun.

James Martineau

We should count time by heart-throbs.

James Martineau

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

Norton Juster

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Norman Vincent Peale

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Emile M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Emile M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Emile M. Cioran

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Emile M. Cioran

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

Emile M. Cioran

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Emile M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Ellen Goodman

The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

Ellen Goodman

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

Ellen Glasgow

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being ...

Epictetus

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

Epictetus

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Emily Bronte

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

Emily Bronte

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

Emily Dickinson

The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.

Emily Dickinson

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

Emily Dickinson

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

Edward T. Hall

People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along....

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

Hermann Hesse

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

Hermann Hesse

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

Hermann Hesse

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Henry Taylor

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.