Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Mark Allen

In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.

Marguerite Duras

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Miguel de Unamuno

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Neil Young

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Nhat Hanh

In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.

Nhat Hanh

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Jodi Picoult

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

John Greenleaf Whittier

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

Kristen Stewart

Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.