Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

Time has only a relative existence.

Thomas Carlyle

Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Tony Curtis

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

Tom Wolfe

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

Steven Biko

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Stephen Hawking

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Stephen King

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

Stephen Hawking

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

Stephen Hawking

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Stephen Hawking

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Spike Milligan

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

Sigmund Freud

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Susan Hill

Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another.

Susan L. Taylor

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

Steven Van Zandt

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

Robert Burns

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

Robert Burns

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

Robert Browning

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

Robert Browning

In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.

Robert Browning

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Robert Browning

Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.

Robert Browning

Who knows but the world may end tonight

Robert Browning

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

Robert Browning

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Tariq Ramadan

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

T. Harv Eker

When you’re engaged in what you love to do, it’s like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.