Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

George Orwell

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

George W. Bush

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

George Orwell

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Jean Cocteau

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

Jean Cocteau

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

George Carlin

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

Gail Godwin

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

George F. Kennan

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

Fernando Pessoa

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves

Fernando Pessoa

It's been a long time since I've been me.

Fiona Apple

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

Fernand Braudel

For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.

Henry Miller

The cancer of time is eating us away

Henry Miller

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Henry Miller

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

George Eliot

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

George Eliot

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

George Eliot

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

George Eliot

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

George Eliot

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

Geoffrey Chaucer

For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

Francoise Sagan

I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

Christopher Columbus

"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened."

Christina Rossetti

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.