Best 8519 quotes in «time quotes» category

My work has always been the product of my time.

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

No, now he didn't want to let himself get too close because he knew it wasn't going to last. Good stuff never lasted. Change would come and wipe it away, and what was the point? It hurt too much every time it was ripped away and he was getting tired of losing pieces of himself. Pretty soon there wouldn't be much left, just scraps of gristle and bone without feeling. He didn't need that

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

Nothing is Improbable until it moves into the Past Tense.

Nothing is ours except time.