Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas Mann

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Thomas Carlyle

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Thomas Carlyle

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

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Thomas Carlyle

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Thomas Carlyle

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Thomas Carlyle

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thomas Carlyle

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

Thomas Carlyle

Time has only a relative existence.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Tom Wolfe

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.

Steven Biko

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Stephen Hawking

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

Stephen King

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.