968 private quotes tagged time

“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” — Albert Einstein

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“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.” — Sophocles

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“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” — Dr. Seuss

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“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.” — Richard Dawkins

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“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain

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“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” — William Penn

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“Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.” — Aristotle

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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” — Pablo Picasso

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“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.” — Karl Marx

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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” — André Gide

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“Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.” — Aldous Huxley

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“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo

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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.” — Henry Ford

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“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.” — George S. Patton

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“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.” — George Eliot

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