Quotes about timing page 11
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
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
“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game
Source: The Angel's Game
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
Source: Journal of a Solitude
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: The Funny Thing Is...
“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: The Prophecy Answer Book
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
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
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
“If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.”
Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
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.”
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker
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.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Source: Black Holes and Baby Universes
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
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. <br class="br">Misattributed
Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
Dean Acheson (1893–1971) Statesman and lawyer
Source: Masterpiece
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
John Proctor
Source: The Crucible (1953)
“The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
“Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
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)
“There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says… it's payback time!”
Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten
Source: Something Rotten
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
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.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Ecce Homo (1888)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
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.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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.
Iris Murdoch book A Fairly Honourable Defeat
A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders
The Builders.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose
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. <br class="br"> William of Baskerville http://books.google.com/books?id=XY2vXKsHbzIC&q=&quot;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&quot;&pg=PA549#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: The Name of the Rose (1980)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
"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.
“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Louis Sachar (1954) American writer of children's books
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker