Time Quotes - Page 40

• There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Appreciate, Amber

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.

  Zona Gale

  Stars, Sunset, Sleep

  "Friendship Village Love Stories".

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• Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
  Be happy while you may!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heartless, May

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “The Lake”

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• Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

  Isaac McLellan

  Flying, Wheels, Littles

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

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• O time! swift devourer of all created things!

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

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• Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tides, Retreat

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.238

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• Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

  Horace Mann

  Causes, Youth, Harvest

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.98

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• A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Giving, Attention

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• Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

  Ken Kesey

  Moving

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.50, Penguin

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• Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Men, Wells

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• Onward and sublime
  Will ever glide
  The silent stream of Time,
  That bears us on its tide.

  Harvey Rice

  Sublime, Tides, Bears

  Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.22

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• Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

  Kobo Abe

  Horse

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.125, Vintage

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• It rolls in grandeur lone--
  The stream of Time;
  And on its shores lie strown
  The wrecks of every clime.

  Harvey Rice

  Lying, Wrecks, Streams

  Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.21

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• I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

  James Joyce

  Glasses, Flames, Space

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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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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• People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

  Arthur Helps

  Father, People, Stills

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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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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• Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Years, Months, Fly Away

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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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• 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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• Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Looks, Consciousness, Found

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.210, Penguin

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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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