Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

William Wordsworth

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

William Wordsworth

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

William Wordsworth

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

William Saroyan

My work has always been the product of my time.

William Saroyan

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

William Saroyan

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

William Saroyan

Live, for this is the time of your life.

William J. Clinton

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

William James

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

William Gibson

Time is money, but also money is money.

William Gibson

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

William Gibson

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Will Durant

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Samuel Rogers

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Samuel Rogers

By many a temple half as old as Time.

Samuel Smiles

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Samuel Smiles

Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago.

William Faulkner

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

William Faulkner

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

William Faulkner

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Willem de Kooning

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Ronald Reagan

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Saint Francis de Sales

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Saint Augustine

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

Saint Augustine

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Saint Augustine

Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

Vance Havner

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Ugo Betti

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

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.