Time Quotes - Page 77

A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

I took some time out for life.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.