Quotes about time
time flower lions
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. Swami Vivekananda
time shame eternity
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. Tony Blair
time
Live with no time-out. Simone de Beauvoir
time age natural
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
time awful gains
I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.
time decay horror
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
time years moments
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
time spirit our-time
The only great spirit of our time. Simone Weil
time past crime
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
time would-be world
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
time believe doe
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. Thor Heyerdahl
time home winning
Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. Thomas Wolfe
time night years
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
time majority right-time
Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Robert A. Heinlein
time men way
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
time valentine stranger-in-a-strange-land
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
time men age
Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better. Roger Rosenblatt
time feminist special
Feminists want to be treated as equals, but at the same time they want special treatment. Rush Limbaugh
time hours mood
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann
time naps way
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future. Thomas Carlyle
time youth glad
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
time second-chance two
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
time past wicked
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
time book reading
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
time ocean rushing
That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.
time looks eternity
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
time yesterday forever
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
time forever roaring
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
time existence relative
Time has only a relative existence.
time stars men
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
time lying silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
time shallow-person silence
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
time vision eternity
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.