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“There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.”
— John Wooden
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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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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“The days are long, but the years are short.”
— Gretchen Rubin
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
— Oscar Wilde
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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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“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.”
— Arnold H. Glasow
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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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“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
— Henry Ford
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“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
— Nelson Mandela
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“You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.”
— Warren Buffett
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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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“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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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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“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
— T. S. Eliot
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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”
— Victor Hugo
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“I spend a lot of time reading.”
— Bill Gates
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“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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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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“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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