Quotes
Quotes about Time
For the first time it was made clear to me that language was no vehicle of soothing prettiness to warm cold castles that waited for spring ... but a potency of sharp knives and brutal hammers
If the end is to come, let us have it, and not have the fiends of time at their game
We must not confuse the future with eternity. Eternity is not an endlessly prolonged future, it is a timeless state that wraps itself about time and, in odd places perceived chiefly by the holy, nibbles at it
You can take your choice of time and space. In matters of history you can't have both
I publish the truth when I've had time to digest the truth
There was a time when I began to doubt man's sanity how could he live without knowing for sure what dawn what death what doom awaited consciousness beyond the tomb?
You start off with time, and if you have time you have to have history. But you only get history when you put things inside time
One should never say that one had no time for reading
The thing is to sow the ideas widely. Then when the time comes for turning them into action the world of the believer will be ready
Writers in time transfer the mendacity of their craft to the other areas of their lives
The smells of that time, the smell of that time. I have always cherished the smells of places and eras
Too much world and too little time
Indiscretion in war time can be as lethal as downright treachery
Every fiction writer ought, once in his lifetime, to be forced to fulfil in fact what he had fashioned in fancy
There is sometimes neither goodness nor beauty in truth
Home. I felt the promise of the prick of tears at the word, sentimental, noble, nostalgic, yearning
I had never yet had a bad dream when sleeping in Rome, perhaps because all the badness of life there was reserved to the waking time. Here was the sewer of history, and it was an open sewer
We can talk to the past as we can talk to the future - the time that is dead and the time that has not yet been born
Is it not a pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice from time to time what has been learned? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar? Is one not a superior man if he does not feel hurt even though he does not feel recognized?
And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in SAYING this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do! Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest--and see what they are doing all the time. By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words.
It is generally agreed that love is a moral sentiment, a community of thought rather than of sense. If that is the case, this community of thought ought to find expression in words and conversation.
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Never enough time, unless you're serving it.
I never have enough time to do the things I want to do 'cuz of the
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
