Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Mark Twain

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Niklaus Wirth

I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Marvin J. Ashton

We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.

Neal A. Maxwell

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.

Neal A. Maxwell

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

Muhammad Iqbal

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Muhammad Ali

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

Mitch Hedberg

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

Maria Bamford

Time flies when you are anxious!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Mark Allen

In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.

Miguel de Unamuno

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Leonardo da Vinci

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

Leonardo da Vinci

The moment has no time.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

Leonardo da Vinci

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Leonardo da Vinci

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Leonardo da Vinci

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us...

Leonardo da Vinci

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Leonardo da Vinci

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

Leonardo da Vinci

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

Oscar Wilde

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Paul Fussell

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Paul Gauguin

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

Lillian Hellman

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

LeAnn Rimes

There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

Laurence Olivier

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.