Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Kennedy

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Robert Greene

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman

A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

Walt Whitman

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Walt Whitman

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Walt Whitman

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Walt Whitman

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Roseanne Barr

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

Ronnie Wood

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Sara Teasdale

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Sara Teasdale

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Samuel Rutherford

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

Samuel Johnson

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

Robert Baden-Powell

Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

Richard M. Nixon

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Ric Ocasek

If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight

Rich Mullins

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

Richard LaGravenese

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Tupac Shakur

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Tupac Shakur

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Vance Havner

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Ugo Betti

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Steve Yzerman

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Rebecca Solnit

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Rudyard Kipling

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

Samuel Johnson

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.