Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas A. Edison

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

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.

Suzy Kassem

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Swami Vivekananda

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Tony Blair

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Thor Heyerdahl

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thomas Wolfe

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Thomas Wolfe

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

Robert A. Heinlein

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Rick Bass

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

Tim O'Brien

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Tillie Olsen

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Time tries the troth in everything.

Steven Wright

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

Steven Wright

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.

Tom Stoppard

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

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.

Tanith Lee

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Tacitus

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Ron Wyden

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.