Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ryan

You can't understand it until you're in it: the demands, the time and the commitments.

Matthew Arnold

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Matthew Arnold

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Matthew Arnold

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

Matthew Arnold

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Matthew Arnold

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

Matthew Arnold

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

Maya Angelou

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Max Beerbohm

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Matthew Hale

Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

Matthew Hale

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Robert Herrick

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Janina Gavankar

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

John F. Kennedy

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

John F. Kennedy

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

Jonathan Carroll

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Edwards

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Rebecca West

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Roy Wood

I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.

Rose Kennedy

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Rose Macaulay

Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

Rose Macaulay

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

Rose Macaulay

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Rebecca Solnit

When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.

Rick Warren

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

Paracelsus

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Paramahansa Yogananda

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Change your life by changing your thoughts.

Owen Hart

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Ovid

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.