Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.

Lord Chesterfield

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

John Clare

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

M. Scott Peck

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

John Archibald Wheeler

Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.

Rebecca Sugar

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

Tim Ryan

You can't understand it until you're in it: the demands, the time and the commitments.

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.

Edward Boyden

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

Janina Gavankar

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

John F. Kennedy

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

John F. Kennedy

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

Jonathan Carroll

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Edwards

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

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.