Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Ambrose Bierce

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Anthony Hopkins

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Alice Morse Earle

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

Alice Meynell

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Anna Akhmatova

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Camus

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Albert Camus

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

Albert Camus

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Albert Camus

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Albert Camus

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Annie Dillard

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Annie Dillard

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Annie Dillard

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Annie Dillard

No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.

Angelus Silesius

Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.

Andrew Jackson

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andy Rooney

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.

Anastacia

Time makes me stronger Well,there's nothing more to say.

Anatole France

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Anais Nin

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Anne Carson

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Anne Frank

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

William Shakespeare

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

William Shakespeare

ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.