Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Jimmy Carter

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

John Cage

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

Ernest Hemingway

Time is the least thing we have of.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

Stephen Hawking

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

James Taylor

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

James Taylor

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Thurber

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

James Thurber

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

O. Henry

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Octavio Paz

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Norton Juster

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale

A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Norman Vincent Peale

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Emile M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Emile M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Emile M. Cioran

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Emile M. Cioran

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

Emile M. Cioran

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Emile M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

Ellen Goodman

The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

Ellen Goodman

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

Ellen Glasgow

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being ...