Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Buckley

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

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.

Isaac Rosenberg

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Isaac Rosenberg

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

Isaac Watts

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Isabel Allende

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

David Thomas

But Vince was insisting that as long as there was time on the clock, we had a shot. He was right and he was the one who took us there.

Hopefully, it's just a little snag. When he said he had discomfort, that was the first time he had said that all spring.

He said, 'OK kid, time to make a decision,'

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

Franz Grillparzer

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

Franz Grillparzer

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Jeanette Winterson

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Jewel

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.