Time Quotes - Page 91

For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

You have strengths within your team every single year and sometimes they stay the same, sometimes they change.

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up

There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.