Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Paula Yates

Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

Tennessee Williams

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Tennessee Williams

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

Tennessee Williams

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Randall Jarrell

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is a king in disguise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Sean M. Carroll

The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

Shoshana Zuboff

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

Shunryu Suzuki

So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

Shelby Foote

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Shannon Lucid

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.

Seth

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

Lewis Mumford

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

Kurt Lewin

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.