Quotes about time
time law worry
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available. Neal A. Maxwell
time talent our-time
We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably. Neal A. Maxwell
time past your-future
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. Muhammad Iqbal
time years months
Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation! Muhammad Ali
time way dollars
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way. Mitch Hedberg
time time-flies anxious
Time flies when you are anxious! Maria Bamford
time ill-will people
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
time stress perfect
In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time. Mark Allen
time work way
The best way to fill time is to waste it. Marguerite Duras
time essence tragedy
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. Miguel de Unamuno
time hair periods
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. Neil Young
time buddhism long
In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time. Nhat Hanh
time appreciate water
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. Nhat Hanh
time grief heart
There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays. Jodi Picoult
time men gains
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man. John Greenleaf Whittier
time epic giving
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" John Greenleaf Whittier
time memories father
Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good. John Greenleaf Whittier
times-have-changed people dont-change
Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant. Kristen Stewart
time distance age
Age, like distance lends a double charm. Oliver Herford
time gentleman bees
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. Oliver Goldsmith
time towns faster
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach. Oliver Goldsmith
time sand without-a-trace
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. Margaret Atwood
time sea floats
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float. Margaret Atwood
time water looks
You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away. Margaret Atwood
time moving two
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once. Margaret Atwood
time children water
Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. Margaret Atwood
time space dimensions
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. Margaret Atwood
time age youth
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
time thinking may
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. Marcus Tullius Cicero
time age doe
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. Marcus Tullius Cicero
time age lasts
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. Marcus Tullius Cicero
time soul lasts
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath. Marcus Tullius Cicero
time moral
O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals! Marcus Tullius Cicero