Quotes about time
time real existential
Jean-Paul Sartre The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
time plums spirit
George William Russell You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
time nuts driven
George Sand Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.
time space causality
Friedrich Nietzsche Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
time wall revenge
Friedrich Nietzsche On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!
time believe time-flies
Friedrich Nietzsche Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
time dark light
Friedrich Nietzsche In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.
time forgiving age
George Bernard Shaw Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
time may sometimes
George Bernard Shaw Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
time long moments
George Bernard Shaw We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
time thinking enough
George Bernard Shaw Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
time age generations
George Bernard Shaw It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
time school interrupted
George Bernard Shaw The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
time men age
George Bernard Shaw Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
time moments great-moments
Gary Larson Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
time littles fagots
Frederick William Faber Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.
time gone calendars
Fred Brooks More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
time finals paradise
Franz Kafka Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.
time eternity logical
Franz Kafka But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.
time common idiom
Eric Zorn You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
time learning knowledge
Erich Fromm Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
time mind dresses
Erica Jong what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
time tea hot
Jasper Fforde Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
time
Michael Vick By the time we got things going, it was a little too late.
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By the time they know we are there, we'll be gone.
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By the time it comes back to them, it's on markdown.
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Richard Greenberg By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
time turkey
Jean Craighead George By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.
time trying work
Eric Gagne But I feel better than I usually feel at this time of spring. I'm just battling, trying to get some work in.
time hate asks
Harrison Ford Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
time-and-patience
Harrison Ford You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
time people one-day
Hannibal Buress When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.