Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman

A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

Walt Whitman

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Walt Whitman

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Walt Whitman

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Walt Whitman

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Tobias Wolff

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Tobias Wolff

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

Tim Ferriss

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Sam Huff

We all get 24 hours a day... It's up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours.

Sam Levenson

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

Roger Zelazny

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

Roger Zelazny

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

Susan Glaspell

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

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

Thomas A. Edison

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas A. Edison

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Shekhar Kapur

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

Shel Silverstein

God says to me with a kind of smile, "Hey how would you like to be God awhile And steer the world?" . . . . "How much do I get? What time is lunch?" . . . . "Gimme back that wheel," says God. "I don't think you're quite ready yet."

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Taylor Swift

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

Swami Vivekananda

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Tony Blair

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Simone de Beauvoir

Live with no time-out.

Simone de Beauvoir

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Simone de Beauvoir

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

Simone de Beauvoir

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Simone de Beauvoir

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Simone Weil

The only great spirit of our time.

Simone Weil

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Simone Weil

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.