Quotes about time
time kings years
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. Edwin Arlington Robinson
time mirrors assault
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see! Edward Young
time loss bells
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.
time roots empires
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
time thinking long
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
time thrown
Time elaborately thrown away.
time moving numbers
Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move! Edmund Spenser
time rose rose-flower
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
time arrogance-of-youth age
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke
time smart inspiration
You can never plan the future by the past.
time past missing
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. Eckhart Tolle
time illusion power-of-now
Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.
time live-in-the-moment life-is
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
time essence suffering
The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.
time practice moments
Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior Bill Porter
time army korea
Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time. Bill Richardson
time growth littles
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. Bernard Williams
time giving littles
The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life. Edith Schaeffer
time thinking modesty
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. Edith Sitwell
time age literature
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton
time glasses people
Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects - hardly recognizable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles - made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances. 'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters . . . any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'
time easier really-mean
Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time. David Viscott
time stress people
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
time real math
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. David Hilbert
time math should-have
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.
time-management management commodity
Time is a perishable commodity. David Hume
time pain littles
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. David Brainerd
time improvement be-careful
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
time mean thinking
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him. Beatrice Wood
time youth sensitive
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. Arthur Rimbaud
time needs way
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. Arnold Bennett
time raw-materials materials
Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
time procrastination next-week
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.