Quotes about time
time-spent
Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent. William H. Macy
time sunny hours
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours). William Hazlitt
time independent all-things
Time,--the most independent of all things.
time mind age
The worst old age is that of the mind.
time future fighting
You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side. William E. Gladstone
time learning garden
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? Wendell Berry
time dust joy
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust. Walter Raleigh
time dark dust
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
time evening
... but the longest day hath its evening.
time long greek
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. W. Somerset Maugham
time long enemy
Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time. Warren Buffett
time life-is-too-short japanese-art
... life is too short to do the whole. Vincent Van Gogh
time understanding masters
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
time giving long
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
time freedom-of-speech revolution
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Vladimir Lenin
time real bread
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
time men selfless
Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.
time insomnia law
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
time wind law
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete. Walter Bagehot
time past flash
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. Walter Benjamin
time giving consistency
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
time plot
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. Virginia Woolf
time dark blue
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.
time writing reflection
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
time memories men
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. William Blackstone
time ruins eternity
The ruins of time build mansions in eternity. William Blake
time feet mountain
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
time sorrow bees
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
time swiftness mercy
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
time lying past
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past. Walker Percy
time mind proud
It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. Wallace Stevens
time block self
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
time business medicine
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. Samuel Smiles