Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

The past, the future: - two eternities!

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Thomas More

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

Thomas Browne

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Thomas Browne

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Timothy Bottoms

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.

Timothy Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Rumi

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

Rumi

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

Rumi

Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

Rumi

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

Rumi

The day is conscious of itself.

Tom Robbins

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

Tom Kite

You can only play one hole at a time.

Steve Gleason

We all have a timeline. Most of us don't live like we have a timeline.

Stephen Covey

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Stephen Covey

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Stephen Covey

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Stephen Covey

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

Vanna Bonta

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

Vanna Bonta

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

Vanna Bonta

Patience is being friends with Time.

Vanna Bonta

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Vanna Bonta

Always is no Time at all.

Vanna Bonta

We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.

Vanna Bonta

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.

Susan Hill

Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another.

Susan L. Taylor

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

Robert Burns

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

Robert Burns

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Robert Burns

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

Robert Browning

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.