Quotes about time
time long strikes
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. Michel de Montaigne
time doe noble
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
time self vocabulary
I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.
time stealing inconvenience
Time steals away without any inconvenience.
time-zones people sensitive
I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place. Marla Gibbs
time money geological-time
Geological time is not money. Mark Twain
time letters brevity
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
time night boston
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
time lying society
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
time ignorance clothes
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
time rope pieces
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
time
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
time drag stills
How slow and still the time did drag along.
time men self
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
time calendars diaries
Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. Mae West
time waiting
Everything comes in time to those who can wait. Francois Rabelais
time father feelings
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
time faithful arguing
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. Christopher Hitchens
time eternity-of-life tragedy
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. Christopher Fry
time children ignorance
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work. Germaine Greer
time believe
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. Gertrude Stein
time communication indifference
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
time war years
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
time civilization volcanoes
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Havelock Ellis
time too-late may
Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time. George Washington
time knowing eternity
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. George Santayana
time men doctrine
All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
time achieve form
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
time freedom future
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. George Orwell
time writing political-language
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
time pockets hundred
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. Friedrich Nietzsche
time fire elements
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper. John Milton
time law forget
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.