Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Senge

The faster we go, the slower we need to be.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

Phyllis Bottome

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

Rabindranath Tagore

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Pythagoras

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

Pythagoras

Time is the soul of this world.

Kevin Kelly

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

David Harsanyi

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

You don't have time to think about yourself and in a way that's good. You don't have time to think about getting old.

James F. Cooper

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

James F. Cooper

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

James Cash Penney

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

Henry B. Eyring

Invest time that will compound forever.

Hector Berlioz

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried.

Henry David Thoreau

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Henry David Thoreau

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

Marcel Proust

A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

Marcel Proust

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcel Proust

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

Joseph Addison

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Joseph Addison

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Joseph Addison

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Jose Mujica

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself,

Jose Canseco

Time travel is possible. Will explain later

Jorge Luis Borges

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

Jorge Luis Borges

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.