Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julien Green

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Change your life by changing your thoughts.

Owen Hart

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Ovid

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

Time is generally the best doctor.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

Paul Valery

At times I think and at times I am.

Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Kate Jackson

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

Elvis Presley

The greatest voice of all time.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

John Burroughs

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

John Burroughs

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

John Bunyan

Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?

Logan Pearsall Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

Madeleine L'Engle

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

Madeleine L'Engle

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Louisa May Alcott

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Lou Duva

He's a guy who gets up at 6 a.m. regardless of what time it is -

Lou Dobbs

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

John Green

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

John Ford

He hath shook hands with time.

John Ford

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

John Fowles

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

John Fowles

Time is not a road - it is a room.

John F. Kennedy

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.