Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

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

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.

Francis Bacon

Time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

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.

Francis Bacon

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Francis Bacon

Time is the author of authors.

So much of her time has been in volunteering and working toward the development of our young people.

Shirley Franklin

So much has happened, or is about to happen, ... The time is right.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I wanted to be a barrister for a long time.

Amar'e Stoudemire

I've had no shellfish and no pork for quite some time.

Diane Kruger

I'm on time even when I try not to be.

Doug Flutie

I'm just going to take my time to make my decision.

Ben Gordon

I'm just going to take as much time as I need to heal.

Erwin Schrodinger

For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Florynce Kennedy

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

Fiona Apple

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

Fernand Braudel

For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.

Henry Miller

The cancer of time is eating us away

Henry Miller

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Henry Miller

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

George Eliot

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Dick Armey

still working with members. This is so important that we'll take whatever time we need to get it right.

That is the time of day that we like to play.

It's our view that the time has come

Considering the time of year and the weather, the turnout was fine,

Considering the M&A cycle, it's the right time to set up boutiques.