Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

Epictetus

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

Emily Bronte

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

Emily Bronte

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

Emily Dickinson

The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.

Emily Dickinson

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .

Emily Dickinson

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

Tony Blair

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Simone de Beauvoir

Live with no time-out.

Simone de Beauvoir

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Simone de Beauvoir

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

Simone de Beauvoir

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Simone de Beauvoir

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Simone Weil

The only great spirit of our time.

Simone Weil

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Simone Weil

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Thor Heyerdahl

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thomas Wolfe

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Thomas Wolfe

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

Robert A. Heinlein

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

Robert A. Heinlein

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Rick Bass

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

Tim O'Brien

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Tillie Olsen

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Time tries the troth in everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.