Quotes
Quotes about Time
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing.
All of us are watchersâof television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freewayâbut few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forwardâor go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my timeâthis art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etchingâthere would be a vast improvement in total output.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
