Time Quotes - Page 37

• You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Names, Voice, Age

  'Northern Farmer. New Style' (1869) st. 5

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Twilight, Farewell, Sadness

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Weight, Speak

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [325]

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• Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Memories, Book

  1979 General election campaign speech, Bolton, 2 May.

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• Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

  Dylan Thomas

  Artist, Talking, Too Much

  Quite Early One Morning (1954) pt. 2 "Wales and the Artist"

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• Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

  James Thurber

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• How slow and still the time did drag along.

  Mark Twain

  Drag, Stills

  1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.

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• Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Structure, Wells

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• Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

  Frank Herbert

  Space, Locks, Range

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• Time is the best avenger.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Avengers

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

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• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loneliness, Men, Hair

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hours, Particular

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• Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Lost, Possession

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• I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Night, Light, Years

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing
  Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Time Love, Strain, Lays

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.664, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

  Alan Lightman

  People, Movement, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.27, Vintage

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• Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Past, Faster, Train

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.410, Penguin

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Loss, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Rain, Light

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.297, Penguin

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• What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

  Susan Glaspell

  Clock, Standards, Standardization

  Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1920). “Plays”

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• But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

  Mark Twain

  1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.13.

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• This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Flower, Iron

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

  Franz Kafka

  Education, Laughter, Hands

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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• In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

  Alan Lightman

  Kissing, Circles, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.11, Vintage

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