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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.

A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

At all times it is better to have a method.

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.