Best 8519 quotes in «time quotes» category

The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

The busy have no time for tears.

The calendar? A mere convention.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

The cancer of time is eating us away

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time.