Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronnie Wood

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Sara Teasdale

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Sara Teasdale

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Samuel Rutherford

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

Samuel Johnson

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

Robert Baden-Powell

Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."

Richard M. Nixon

Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.

Ric Ocasek

If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight

Rich Mullins

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

Richard LaGravenese

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Tupac Shakur

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Tupac Shakur

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

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.

Steve Yzerman

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Rebecca Solnit

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Rudyard Kipling

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

Samuel Johnson

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Samuel Johnson

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Samuel Johnson

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Samuel Johnson

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Samuel Johnson

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Ronald Reagan

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

Ronald Reagan

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Robert Jordan

Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.

Robert Jordan

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

Robert Jordan

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.