Quotes about time
time men youth
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place. Francis Picabia
time knows ifs
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. Francis Bacon
time business people
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
time-management management innovators
Time is the greatest innovator.
time artist years
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
time ancient latter
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
time goons scotty
Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won. Jennifer Egan
time hard-work science
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. Jean Rostand
time loneliness being-alone
To be adult is to be alone.
time men long
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
time space strange
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space. Graham Greene
time memorable positivity
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir
time long politics
In politics a week is a very long time. Harold Wilson
time ideas soul
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. Harriet Martineau
time art busy
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. Halldor Laxness
time auras sides
Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side. Iain Banks
time mean self
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now. Hugh Prather
time children war
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. Howard Zinn
time children war
Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept. Howard Nemerov
time century ends
Decades go faster toward the end of a century. Hortense Calisher
time men years
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.) Horace
time
On day is pressed on by another.
time
He said, 'OK kid, time to make a decision,'
time space causality
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
time wall revenge
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
time believe time-flies
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
time dark light
In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
time forgiving age
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. George Bernard Shaw
time may sometimes
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
time long moments
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
time thinking enough
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
time age generations
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
time school interrupted
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.