Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Martineau

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

James Long

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

James M. Barrie

Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

James M. Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James L. Brooks

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

James L. Brooks

I took some time out for life.

John Galsworthy

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

John Evelyn

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits...

John Dos Passos

Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.

John Donne

If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

John O'Donohue

We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the ocean is all waves and movement on the surface, we need to sink through time to the depths where the true rhythm lies.

John Milton

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

John Dean

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

Joan Rivers

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

George Ade

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

Garrison Keillor

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Frank Woolley

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

Francois Fenelon

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

Francois Fenelon

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

George Crabbe

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

Edward T. Hall

People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along....

Janina Gavankar

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

Hermann Hesse

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

Hermann Hesse

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

Hermann Hesse

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Henry Taylor

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

Joseph Addison

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.