Quotes About Time

Still, whencesoever derived, the Egyptian people, as it existed in the flourishing time of Egyptian history, was beyond all question a mixed race, showing different affinities.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy last grandchild shall pass into the darkness.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

It is one of the sad ironies of life that one has to make money in order to spend time but waste time in order to make money. In

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.

Mein Leben durchgestürmt; erst gross und mächtig, Nun aber geht es weise, geht bedächtig.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Three yearswe waited intently for the heraldclosely watchingthe pines the shore and the stars.

I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish.

The artist, especially the poet, has always known this to be wrong. He knows that time shortens and lengthens, without regard to the minute hand.

In economics, contingent, time- and context-bound theories

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.

As a matter of fact, life starts to feel mighty long when all you eat is turkey bacon and egg whites and a side of arugula.

A whining voice at the back of my mind insisted that while the greedy ocean rose, year by year, the real catastrophe was yet to come. Behind that again was the cowardly whisper of humanity in all ages, 'Please, not in my time.

Methinks I see the wanton hours flee, And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.