On Time Quotes
Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.
Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.
A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.
What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s.
In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.
Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.