Best 8519 quotes in «time quotes» category

The purpose of art is to stop time.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

There comes a time in every life we find the heart we're looking for.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

There is a way to again be in real time with the universe, but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation. It is by finding your true Self. When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

There is no time like the pleasant.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.