Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence Sterne

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.

Friedrich Schiller

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

Friedrich Schiller

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

Friedrich Schiller

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Friedrich Schiller

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Friedrich Schiller

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

Friedrich Schiller

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Friedrich Schiller

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Friedrich Schiller

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

George Gilder

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

Jon Bon Jovi

Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.

Johnnie Cochran

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis

John Zorn

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

Luigi Pirandello

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

Luc de Clapiers

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

Luc de Clapiers

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

Luc de Clapiers

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

Louis MacNeice

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

Lord Chesterfield

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Lord Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

John Clare

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

Jacob Bronowski

Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

Hartley Coleridge

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

Harvey Fierstein

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Louise Erdrich

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

Louise Erdrich

Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

Glenn Hoddle

The end of the season's come at the wrong time for both.

Matthew Arnold

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Matthew Arnold

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.