Quotes about timing
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Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον.
X, 16
Variant: Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) by Leslie Halliwell
Variant: I find TV very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings”
Widely circulated on the internet, but no actual text to tie it back to Eckhart, as of yet.
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Meister Eckhart / Disputed
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
Letter to the Secretariat of the Soviet Writers’ Union (12 November 1969) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “Expulsion".
Source: A Living Nightmare
Source: Story of O
Quoted allegedly "From da Vinci`s Notes" in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&q=murder.
Actually the quote is not authentic but made up from a novel by Dmitri Merejkowski (w:Dmitry Merezhkovsky) entitled "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci" (La Résurrecton de Dieux 1901), translated from Russian into English by Herbert Trench. G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press. There, in Book (i.e. chapter) VI, entitled The Diary of Giovanni Boltraffio, one finds the following:
The master [Leonardo da Vinci] permits harm to no living creatures, not even to plants. Zoroastro http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Masini tells me that from an early age he has abjured meat, and says that the time shall come when all men such as he will be content with a vegetable diet, and will think on the murder of animals as now they think on the murder of men ( p. 226 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=g_pa0OaYX64C&pg=PA226).
However, despite the quote's false attribution, da Vinci was in fact a vegetarian.
Misattributed
“You can live a whole life time never being awake.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”
Source: Animal Farm
IV, 43
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
Book II, 1109a.27.
Variant translation: Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
As quoted in The Child: At Home and School (1944) by Edith M. Leonard, Lillian E. Miles, and Catherine S. Van der Kar, p. 203
Nicomachean Ethics
“I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.”
Source: Black Coffee Blues
1.1, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
(1917)
Source: The State and Revolution
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
I.580
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 224
Episode 2, Chapter 13-14
The Power of Myth (1988)
Context: Campbell: Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. There's a wonderful formula that the Buddhists have for the Bodhisattva, the one whose being (sattva) is illumination (bodhi), who realizes his identity with eternity and at the same time his participation in time. And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a wonder and to come back and participate in it. "All life is sorrowful" is the first Buddhist saying, and it is. It wouldn't be life if there were not temporality involved which is sorrow. Loss, loss, loss.
Moyers: That's a pessimistic note.
Campbell: Well, you have to say yes to it, you have to say it's great this way. It's the way God intended it.
“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
Source: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“People are crazy and times are strange… I used to care but things have changed”
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
Variant: I used to care, but things have changed.
Context: People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range,
I used to care, but things have changed.
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 7
“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”
Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6K0umwZwo by Diane Sawyer (1994)
“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”
Variant: Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.
Source: Auric Goldfinger, Ch. 14 : Things That Go Thump In The Night
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”
Source: Revolution at the Gates: Selected Writings of Lenin from 1917
Source: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
“Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.”
Source: First Test
“The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.”
Source: The Goat-Foot God
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
No source for this quote among Orwell's writings has yet been located, and the earliest published source of this phrase found on Google Books is this snippet https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=kWD0AAAAMAAJ&q=%22truth+is+a+revolutionary+act%22&dq=%22truth+is+a+revolutionary+act%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs0MKSqpbKAhWH0iYKHXj6ABUQ6AEIJjAD from p. 5 of Science Dimension, Volumes 14–18 (1982) published by the National Research Council Canada. Quote Investigator has an article "In a Time of Universal Deceit – Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/truth-revolutionary/ indicating their attempts to trace the quote. The earliest similar remarks they had found were in a 1982 book titled “Partners in Ecocide: Australia’s Complicity in the Uranium Cartel” by Venturino Giorgio Venturini, where the word “universal” was omitted, and a specific originating text was not identified: "In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Variants:
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
Truth is treason in an empire of lies. (Often attributed by Ron Paul to Orwell but never sourced.)
In the mid-19th century Karl Georg von Raumer made a remark, which has a similar meaning. In Geschichte der Pedagogic (1855), he states: 'Jede keimende Wahrheit ist revolutionär gegen den entgegenstehenden herrschenden Irrthum, jede keimende Tugend revolutionär gegen das im Schwange gehende, ihr widersprechende Laster' which translates as: "Every germinating truth is revolutionary against the opposing ruling error, every germinating virtue is revolutionary against popular contradictory lies."
In 1898 French socialist Jean Jaurès said, "When a society, when an institution, lives only by lies, truth is revolutionary." He was speaking with reference to the ongoing Dreyfus Affair. The statement is quoted in Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France (2010), p. 262. (She cites Le petit Meridional, 3 July 1898, as the original source.) This seems very close in spirit and in phrasing to the pseudo-Orwell quotation. (The cumulative index to the many volumes of Orwell's writing compiled and edited by Peter Davison does not reveal any direct references to Jaurès or the Dreyfus Affair.)
Disputed
Variant: In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
“Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.”
“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
Noah Brooks, scribe for the Sacramento Union, writing in the Harper’s Weekly for July 1865, 3 months after Lincoln had died, reported that the Lincoln once said this, at an unspecified date; as reported in "Did Abraham Lincoln Actually Say That Obama Quote?" by James M. Cornelius, The Daily Beast (9 August 2012) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/08/did-abraham-lincoln-actually-say-that-obama-quote.html
Posthumous attributions
“Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
Source: Macbeth, Act I, scene iii.