Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

Ovid

Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.

Ovid

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

Ovid

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

Ovid

Tempus fugit (time flies).

Mary Wollstonecraft

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Hunter Austin

The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.

Martha Graham

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

Marshall McLuhan

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

Marshall McLuhan

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Marshall McLuhan

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Marguerite Young

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

Neil Young

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Nhat Hanh

In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.

Nhat Hanh

To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Jodi Picoult

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

John Greenleaf Whittier

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

John Green

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

Patti Smith

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Niklaus Wirth

I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Marvin J. Ashton

We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

Marvin J. Ashton

How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

Neal A. Maxwell

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

Neal A. Maxwell

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

Muhammad Iqbal

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Muhammad Ali

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!