Quotes about time
time hours mood
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann
time naps way
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. Thomas Carlyle
time youth glad
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. Thomas Carlyle
time second-chance two
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore! Thomas Carlyle
time past wicked
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. Thomas Carlyle
time book reading
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Thomas Carlyle
time ocean rushing
That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it. Thomas Carlyle
time looks eternity
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile. Thomas Carlyle
time yesterday forever
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Thomas Carlyle
time forever roaring
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! Thomas Carlyle
time existence relative
Time has only a relative existence. Thomas Carlyle
time stars men
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres. Thomas Carlyle
time lying silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle
time shallow-person silence
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. Thomas Carlyle
time vision eternity
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. Thomas Carlyle
time aeneas age
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman. Tom Wolfe
time faces black-consciousness
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. Steven Biko
time-travel evidence
I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible. Stephen Hawking
time blow wind
Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe. Stephen King
time moving ideas
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth Stephen Hawking
time past law
The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. Stephen Hawking
time disorder increase
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. Stephen Hawking
time people consuming
People find life entirely too time-consuming. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
time laughing three
There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart. Spike Milligan
time cat animal
Time spent with cats is never wasted. Sigmund Freud
time believe doe
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. Thor Heyerdahl
time home winning
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
time night years
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. Thomas Wolfe
time majority right-time
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Robert A. Heinlein
time men way
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time. Robert A. Heinlein
time valentine stranger-in-a-strange-land
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith. Robert A. Heinlein
time long weakness
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? Rick Bass
time yesterday
A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. Tim O'Brien