Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

Blaise Pascal

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Blaise Pascal

We do not worry about being respected in towns through which we pass. But if we are going to remain in one for a certain time, we do worry. How long does this time have to be?

Blaise Pascal

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Blaise Pascal

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

This is really a difficult time to be in films.

When I make that time for just me, I'm calmer and focused.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

Timothy Noah

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

Tina Brown

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

Charles Spurgeon

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

Charles Spurgeon

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

Art Linkletter

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

Art Buchwald

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Arthur Ashe

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

Ayn Rand

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?

Ayn Rand

That time and those people are upon you!

Ayn Rand

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Bertrand Russell

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Benjamin Disraeli

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Benjamin Disraeli

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Barry Long

The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.