Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Leonardo da Vinci

The moment has no time.

Leonardo da Vinci

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Paul Fussell

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

LeAnn Rimes

There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Oliver Goldsmith

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Marc Bolan

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

Brad Shaw

At this time of year, it's totally unacceptable to get outworked. I thought that's what happened, especially the first 20 minutes.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

Ashley Montagu

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

Martin Amis

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

Martin Amis

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Plutarch

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Paula Yates

Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

Randall Jarrell

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

Shunryu Suzuki

So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

Seth

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

Marcus Aurelius

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Marcus Aurelius

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Marcus Aurelius

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.