Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

William Shakespeare

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

Liza Minnelli

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

Benjamin Spock

Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

Bertrand Russell

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Bertrand Russell

The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Bertrand Russell

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Bernard Baruch

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Chetan Bhagat

All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.

Cheri Huber

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

Charles Lamb

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

Charles Lamb

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

Charles Lamb

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Chanakya

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

Charles Baudelaire

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

Charles Baudelaire

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Champ Bailey

Time heals all things.

Charles Mackay

There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

Charles M. Schulz

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Bill McKibben

The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart?

Bill Anderson

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

Bessie Smith

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

Bernard Malamud

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.