Quotes
Quotes about Time
The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Time is my greatest enemy.
Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
