Quotes about time
time mistake mean
I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. Ann Brashares
time moving mean
Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
time men heaven
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away! Alphonse de Lamartine
time ocean overflow
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. Alphonse de Lamartine
time heartless may
Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may! Alphonse de Lamartine
time justice voiceless
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments. Aeschylus
time opportunity wings
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. A. A. Milne
time lost valuable
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. Abraham Lincoln
time air names
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
time blow dust
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
time law oblivion
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
time creativity wasted-time
Creativity is the residue of time wasted. Albert Einstein
time business society
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service. Albert Einstein
time science thinking
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. Albert Einstein
time wife our-love
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. Algernon Charles Swinburne
time grief men
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . Algernon Charles Swinburne
time love-is dust
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. Algernon Charles Swinburne
time loss giving
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment. Algernon Charles Swinburne
time spring rain
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. Algernon Charles Swinburne
time tragedy definitions
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Alfred North Whitehead
time jewels long
Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time sorrow crowns
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time age heirs
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time past men
I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why? Alfred Lord Tennyson
time men mathematics
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time names voice
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time children lying
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time epic doctors
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time may time-management
A day may sink or save a realm. Alfred Lord Tennyson
time done
There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why. Aldo Leopold
time intuition duration
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing. Aldous Huxley
time blood world
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. Aldous Huxley
time numbers race
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. Aldous Huxley