Famous Quotes - Tags - Time
- ... automatically, worn out by the gloomy day and by the perspective of a sad tomorrow, I put in... More
- ... through it
The roar of time plunging unchecked through the sluices
Of the days,... More
- ... we may leisurely
Each one demand and answer to his part
Performed in this wide gap of... More
- ... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at... More
- ... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are... More
- ... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to... More
- ...Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs). More
- A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. More
- A lost inch of gold may be reclaimed, but never a lost inch of time. More
- A lustreless protrusive eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of... More
- A moment in time but time was made through that moment: for without the meaning there is no time,... More
- A moment is a concentrated eternity. More
- A moment that gave not only itself, but
Also the means of keeping it, of not turning to... More
- A quarter of an hour is worth a thousand pieces of gold. More
- A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of... More
- A trifle afterward More
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream... More
- A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slug’s a living calendar of days;
What... More
- Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. “What!” he said, “Must we... More
- Ah petal, dust and wind-fall
on the ground queen awaiting queen. More
- Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is... More
- Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by. More
- Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said,... More
- All my possessions for a moment of time. More
- All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word... More
- all that we might have been,
all that we were—fire, tears,
wit, taste, martyred... More
- all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
“O let not Time deceive... More
- All things are a flowing,
Sage Heracleitus says;
But a tawdry cheapness
Shall outlast... More
- All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle. More
- All “it was” is a fragment, a riddle, a horrible accident—until the creative will declares:... More
- All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your... More
- Always the same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks. More
- American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history,... More
- Among those feasting men Cuchulain dwelt,
And his young sweetheart close beside him... More
- An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth life’s while to wake and sport. More
- An inch of gold can not buy an inch of time. More
- An inch of time is worth more than a foot of jade. More
- An old French sentence says, “God works in moments,”M”En peu d’heure Dieu labeure.” We... More
- And for 180 years almost nothing. More
- And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when... More
- And like that game with which the Japanese amuse themselves by dipping in a porcelain bowl of... More
- And pray for me also under the draughty stair.
As we get older we do not get any... More
- And returned on the previous night. More
- And since the average lifetime—the relative longevity—is far greater for memories of poetic... More
- And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room, More
- And so I ask, “Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?” But God, who is the... More
- And soon it is neither here nor there
Whether time’s rewards are fair or unfair. More
- And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. More
- And Time, a maniac scattering dust,
And Life, a Fury slinging flame. More
- And what I pity in you is something human,
The old incurable untimeliness,
Only begetter... More
- And why do you cry, my dear, why do you cry?
It is all in the whirling circles of... More
- And yet, and yet ... Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical... More
- Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. More
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. More
- As the bird trims her to the gale,
I trim myself to the storm of time,
I man the rudder,... More
- As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism... More
- As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. More
- As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting... More
- At each minute we are crushed by the idea and the feeling of time. And there are only two ways to... More
- Baptiste knew how to make a short job long
For love of it, and yet not waste time either. More
- Because Time cannot alter but obey Fate’s laws.
[Chorus:] Then happy those whom Fate, that... More
- Before and After. Yes, with a little work, they can be saved. It is the present, the immediate... More
- Behind a pot of ferns the wagging clock
Tells me the hour’s word, the neural... More
- But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before... More
- But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the... More
- But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust. More
- But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart! More
- But I am here,
And they are far, and time is old.
Within my dream the grass is... More
- But now moments surround us
Like a crowd, some inquisitive faces, some hostile ones,
Some... More
- But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past... More
- But time has set its maggot on their track. More
- But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years,
Drawn slowly... More
- But, alas, to make me
A fixèd figure for the time of scorn
To point his slow unmoving... More
- But, when nothing subsists from a distant past, after the death of others, after the destruction... More
- By Time and Age full many things are taught. More
- Castaway, your time is a flat sea that doesn’t stop,
with no new land to make for and no... More
- Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the... More
- Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time’s eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which... More
- City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill... More
- Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have
To wear away this long age of three... More
- Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,
All that silk and satin... More
- Come, madam wife, sit by my side
And let the world slip. We shall ne’er be younger. More
- Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time. More
- could not even sustain
Some casual shout that broke the silent air,
Or the unimaginable... More
- Days sift down it constantly. Years. More
- Deeper and deeper into Time’s endless tunnel, does the winged soul, like a night-hawk, wend her... More
- Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. More
- Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet... More
- Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? it is not to... More
- Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given... More
- Down goeth the grass, soon wrought to withered hay;
Ay me alas, ay me alas, that beauty needs... More
- Each instant of life is a step toward death. More
- Eternity is in love with the productions of time. More
- Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us... More
- Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls. More
- Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from... More
- Flame burns, rain sinks into the cracks
And they all go to rack ruin beneath the thud of the... More
- Flowers have a time to reblossom, but human beings are never young again. More
- For beauty, wit,
High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity,... More
- For five years I have seen her each day, and each time I believe it is for the first time. More
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