Quotes about timing
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Variant: If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 8
Source: Second Glance
“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Source: Journal of a Solitude
Source: The Funny Thing Is...
“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.”
Source: The Prophecy Answer Book
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
Source: As You Like It
“If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.”
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 10; Here Lee paraphrases a much older English proverb: If you care for life, don't waste your time; for time is what life is made of. (as quoted in Bordighera and the Western Riviera (1883) by Frederick Fitzroy Hamilton, p. 189).
Context: Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
“Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Source: To the Lighthouse
Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
As quoted in InfoWorld https://books.google.gr/books?id=qjgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49&dq=, Vol. 23, No. 16, 16 April 2001, p. 49. This had been attributed previously to many other sources from 1908 on, according to this analysis https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/ by Quote Investigator.
Misattributed
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Source: Sundays at Tiffany's
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
Source: Masterpiece
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
John Proctor
Source: The Crucible (1953)
“The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.”
“Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception
Source: Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
Source: Unseen Academicals
“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
This has been compared to Horace Walpole's statement: "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
Variant translation: Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second time as farce.
Source: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
Source: Small Gods
“There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says… it's payback time!”
Source: Something Rotten
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Ecce Homo (1888)
Source: The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
Part VI: "Two Fragments from a Suppressed Book Called 'Glances at History' or 'Outlines of History' ".
Papers of the Adams Family (1939)
Variant: Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Context: In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country; in a republic it is the common voice of the people. Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catch-phrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country — hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
This Republic's life is not in peril. The nation has sold its honor for a phrase. It has swung itself loose from its safe anchorage and is drifting, its helm is in pirate hands.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.
“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”
Source: Jurassic Park
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time.”
The Builders.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro.
William of Baskerville http://books.google.com/books?id=XY2vXKsHbzIC&q="Fear+prophets+adso+and+those+prepared+to+die+for+the+truth+for+as+a+rule+they+make+many+others+die+with+them+often+before+them+at+times+instead+of+them"&pg=PA549#v=onepage
Source: The Name of the Rose (1980)
“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
"The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether."
Variants:
"One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" — after all the scientific and technological achievements — "we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
As quoted by R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. in his speech accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for vice president, in Washington, D. C. (8 August 1972); this has sometimes been published as if Shriver's interjection "after all the scientific and technological achievements" were part of the original statement, as in The New York Times (9 August 1972), p. 18
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.
As translated in The The Ignatian Tradition (2009) edited by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, p. 86
Love is the only force which can make things one without destroying them. … Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Seed Sown : Theme and Reflections on the Sunday Lectionary Reading (1996) by Jay Cormier, p. 33
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Fire of Love : Encountering the Holy Spirit (2006) by Donald Goergen, p. 92
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
As quoted in Read for the Cure (2007) by Eileen Fanning, p. v
Variant: Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Context: What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step : because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker