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

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

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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

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

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

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 extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

The faster we go, the slower we need to be.

The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.