Quotes about time
time rich spoil
Rich with the spoils of time. Thomas Gray
time jobs men
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. Thomas Hardy
time cost pruning
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. Thomas B. Macaulay
time adventure emotional
An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity. Tim Cahill
time kindness flower
But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago. Thomas Love Peacock
time names wealth
Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.
time men yield
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.
time gay race
The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to another race, As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.
time night men
Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.
time pain fall
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain. Thomas Kyd
time past lasts
Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last. Thomas Ken
time wings dies
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die. Thomas Campion
time magnificence eternity
With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness. Thomas Chalmers
time procrastination starting-over
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! Sam Levenson
time difficult i-have-learned
The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it. Roger Zelazny
time men climbing
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
time clock standards
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives. Susan Glaspell
time machines littles
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
time powerful stress
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything. Stewart Brand
time admitting reason
I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life. Sonia Johnson
time done four
It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times. Stephen Sondheim
time journey woods
Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
time mean woods
Let the moment go. . . . Don't forget it for a moment, though. Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before. . . . Now I understand! And it's time to leave the woods.
time hands flow
You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced this time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching in a state of awe and wonderment. And it just flows out by itself. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
time hands meditation
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. Pearl S. Buck
time memories motivation
One faces the future with one's past.
time shocked amused
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
time children thinking
Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children. Paula Yates
time night climbing-up
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice Peter Gabriel
time stress needs
The faster we go, the slower we need to be. Peter Senge
time years yield
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
time littles ends
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end. Phyllis Bottome
time wealth clock
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Rabindranath Tagore