T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.”
Source: Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion
“Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.”
Source: Poems of William Cowper, Esq
“Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.”
Source: The essential Turgenev
“Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.”
Source: Life After God
“Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c
“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”
Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)
“Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.”
Source: The Mad Carews
“Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice”
Source: Damage: a novel
“Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.”
“Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.”
Source: Travels Through Sacred India
“Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!”
“Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.”
“Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice.”
Source: The Emerald Atlas
“Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane!”
“Time, like money, is measured by our needs.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.”
“Time, money, etc... are human-made constructs. They are not real. They are completely made up.”
“Time, motion and wine cause sleep.”
“Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing”
“Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city”
“Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.”
“Time, on its own, heals nothing.”
Source: The Memory Room: A Novel
“Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.”
“Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.”
Source: Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's
“Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.”
“Time, that aged nurse,
Rocked me to patience.”
Source: The poetical works of John Keats
“Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.”
“Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.”
“Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think
“Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Time, the foe of man's dominion,
Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
Scattering from his hoary pinion
Shades of everlasting night.”
Source: The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems
“Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.”
“Time, the greatest thief of all.”
“Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.”
Source: Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence
“Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.”
Source: The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President
“Time, though in Eternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.”
Source: The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter
“Time, time will heal the wound.”
“Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
While I looked around,
For my possibilities;
I was so hard to please”
“Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.”
Source: A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe
“Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.”
“Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.”
“Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass”
“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel
“Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.”