Time Quotes - Page 32

• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Children, Humorous, Eye

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Autumn's the mellow time.

  William Allingham

  Inspiring, Autumn, Mellow

  William Allingham (1883). “Evil May-day, &c”

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Learning, Usual, Letters

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Numbers, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.

  Stephen King

  Country, Song, Hair

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Night, Texas, Years

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.4, Thomas Wolfe

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• Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Should, Categorical Imperative

  Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (1994). “Ethical Philosophy: The Complete Texts of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, Part II of The Metaphysics of Morals, with On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.30, Hackett Publishing

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

  Henry Abbey

  Wilderness, Ends, Wander

  Henry Abbey, “Emmanuel”

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• The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

  Roger Zelazny

  Difficult, I Have Learned, Difficult Things

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”

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• Time be thine,
  And thy best graces spend it at thy will.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.195

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• Love and Time with reverence use,
  Treat them like a parting friend:
  Nor the golden gifts refuse
  Which in youth sincere they send:
  For each year their price is more,
  And they less simple than before.

  John Dryden

  Simple, Years, Use

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2065, Delphi Classics

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• Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Drinking, Breathing, Water

  J. M. Coetzee, David Attwell (1992). “Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

  Horace

  Years, Plunder, One Thing

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ideas, Illusion, Simultaneous

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• Time cleanses what it touches over time.

  Aeschylus

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

  Jim Bishop

  Life, Change, New Year

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• Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

  Roger Zelazny

  Men, Climbing, Hills

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• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Inspirational, Broken Hearted, Tears

  "The Amazon of Letters". Book by George Wickes, 1976.

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• That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Moving, Passion, Ignorance

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

  James Branch Cabell

  Doe, Clubs

  James Branch Cabell (2003). “The Witch-Woman: A Trilogy About Her”, p.99, Wildside Press LLC

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• Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

  James Branch Cabell

  Appreciation, Irony, Changed

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.172, eBookIt.com

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• Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Men, Force, Dies

  "Studies in Battle Command" by Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, (p. 89), 1995.

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• Mr. Herschel... brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."

  Charles Babbage

  Wish, Computer, Process

  Charles Babbage's remarks in November 1839, recalling events in 1821; as quoted in Harry Wilmot Buxton and Anthony Hyman "Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Late Charles Babbage", 1988.

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• Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.

  Heather Brewer

  My Favorite

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Eighth Grade Bites #1: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.9, Penguin

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• I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

  James Branch Cabell

  Common Sense, Three, Toys

  James Branch Cabell (1927). “Townsend of Lichfield”

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