Quotes about time
time
Live with no time-out. Simone de Beauvoir
time age natural
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.
time awful gains
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.
time decay horror
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.
time years moments
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.
time spirit our-time
The only great spirit of our time. Simone Weil
time past crime
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
time care failing
Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. Sri Aurobindo
time self roots
A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.
time self giving
Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use. Sri Chinmoy
time men age
Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better. Roger Rosenblatt
time feminist special
Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment. Rush Limbaugh
time hours mood
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann
time men lost
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. Thomas Jefferson
time fear long
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
time doe succeed
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. Robert Herrick
time flower rose
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.
time epoch
The obscurest epoch is to-day. Robert Louis Stevenson
time firsts creation
Time was God's first creation. Walter Lang
time men ideas
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. Walter Lippmann
time hands goal
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Voltaire
time routine way
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work. William Feather
time knowledge love-is
What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone. William Butler Yeats
time men elderly
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
time fire chairs
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
time oxen behinds
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
time children past
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
time body sickness
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness. Wilhelm von Humboldt
time dust sublime
The sublime is contained in a grain of dust. Walter Savage Landor
time character light
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action. Walter Scott
time courses
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
time fate drs
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.