Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Frank Herbert

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

George H. W. Bush

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

Hubert H. Humphrey

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Honore de Balzac

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Iris Murdoch

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

James Gleick

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had....

James Gleick

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....

J. R. R. Tolkien

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Immanuel Kant

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And let its meaning permeate Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Time is the best avenger.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Horace

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Dick Cheney

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

David Satcher

We don't have a lot of time with inhalation anthrax,

Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.

The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

James Keller

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off."

James Keller

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."

James Keller

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

James Keller

Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

Vidya Balan

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

Paulo Coelho

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Billy Porter

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.

Mark Salling

You don't really have time to watch TV if you work on TV.

Craig Bellamy

Today was the first time we touched a footy all week.

Orla Brady

Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!