Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Young

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

Kim Edwards

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

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.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Ashley Montagu

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Marcus Aurelius

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Marcus Aurelius

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Shekhar Kapur

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

Peter Gabriel

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Lee Iacocca

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Just as the Romans were the only nation that was truly a nation, so our age is the first genuine age.

Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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.

James Long

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

James M. Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

John Galsworthy

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Francois Fenelon

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

James Taylor

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Emily Dickinson

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

Hermann Hesse

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

Hermann Hesse

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

Henry Taylor

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

It's just going to take us a little time to work through this.