Quotes about time
time traps
And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him. John Travolta
time love-life stuff
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. John Updike
time moon sun
Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes. John Updike
time partnership dissolving
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. John Updike
time long figures
Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago. John Updike
time elements invaders
Time is our element, not a mistaken invader. John Updike
time opportunity use
They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time. John Stuart Mill
time kings men
The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat . . . He ate not in private, except in time of sickness . . . Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men. John Selden
time
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more. James Joyce
time hands water
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. James Joyce
time ruins eternity
Time's ruins build eternity's mansions. James Joyce
time flames space
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. James Joyce
time queens brain
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen." James Russell Lowell
time book reading
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. James Russell Lowell
time youth defects
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. James Russell Lowell
time fate deeds
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?" James Russell Lowell
time heart one-day
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world. James Russell Lowell
time memories son
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. James Russell Lowell
time men needs
God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. James Russell Lowell
time father fit
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers? Laurence Sterne
time would-be half
If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest. Laurence Sterne
time thinking input
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs. Friedrich August von Hayek
time restless constant
Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. Friedrich Schiller
time silent silent-power
Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time. Friedrich Schiller
time youth seducing
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you. Friedrich Schiller
time blooming fields
Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit. Friedrich Schiller
time past sublime
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime. Friedrich Schiller
time thinking quiet
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time. Friedrich Schiller
time children artist
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. Friedrich Schiller
time focus-and-concentration loser
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. Friedrich Schiller
time advice would-be
We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941. Franklin D. Roosevelt
time littles management
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. Franklin D. Roosevelt
time quality scarcity
Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity. George Gilder