Quotes
Quotes about Time
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
At bottom, every man knows perfectly well that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercises at the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing.. must drive carefully in each others' corridors.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow will have to come back countless times as a lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time; Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best, And turn'd some very serious things to jest. Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers, Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers; "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute! Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote. We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens, When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die," And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.
But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test. The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth, In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth.
Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
