Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

Ambrose Bierce

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Ambrose Bierce

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Anthony Hopkins

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Abraham Lincoln

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Ani Difranco

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

Andy Grove

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Andy Goldsworthy

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.

Andrew Marvell

And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

Amy Poehler

It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Ann Brashares

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

Alphonse de Lamartine

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

Aeschylus

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

A. A. Milne

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

We're all ranchers down here. We don't have the time to go to Washington on a set date. It's pretty costly.

We've been working all year toward this. This is the time we're going to go out and show them what we're made of.

Tove Lo

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

Eric Idle

I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Logan Mankins

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

Khloe Kardashian

I don't really weigh myself, but over time - and I'm not crazy about it - but I know how I want to feel in clothes, and it does become addicting, and once you see results, you want to see more.

Kathleen Kennedy

I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

Kaki King

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

We did great. This is our 11th year going, and our first time to win two championships.

Kourtney Kardashian

I'll even cut things. Or, I'll guesstimate it, and I'll have my assistant get it hemmed for me because I don't have time.

Jane Austen

Time will explain.