Quotes about time
time promise disappoint
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us... Leonardo da Vinci
time numbers weight
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
time memories past
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
time men compassion
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
time thieves principles
I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde
time warning alarms
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm. Paul Fussell
time artist years
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. Paul Gauguin
time thinking courses
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. Lillian Hellman
time heart there-comes-a-time
There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for. LeAnn Rimes
time kings politician
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. Laurence Olivier
time forever watches
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever. Lauren Oliver
time tape lasts
When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct? Larry Wall
time asking-questions diversity
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. Lillian Smith
time zero children
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. Pablo Picasso
time stress speed
Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
time buckets hours
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over....
time misunderstood
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
time mistake parent
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
time men should-have
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
time age life-time
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
time men delight
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
time humor age
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
time work lying
Punctuality is the thief of time
time past people
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
time fate literature
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Iris Murdoch
time judging opera
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. Gioachino Rossini
time rain roots
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Gerard Manley Hopkins
time greatness class
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. Harry S Truman
time trying president
Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
time drinking breathing
Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me. J. M. Coetzee
time one-day machines
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
time tears faces
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. Natalie Clifford Barney
time waste wasting-time
Eternity - waste of time.