Time

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  • At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.
        Thomas Wolfe   Best?
  • Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. . . . The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
        Thomas Wolfe   Best?
  • The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
        Thomas Wolfe   Best?
  • We do not remember days, we remember moments.
        Cesare Pavese   Best?
  • There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
        Jeremy Collier   Best?
  • What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
        Swedish Proverb   Best?
  • All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
        Niccollo Machavelli   Best?
  • A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell.
        Sonny Liston   Best?
  • Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
        Emo Phillips   Best?
  • Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
        Walter Scott   Best?
  • I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.
        Tim Burton   Best?
  • Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.
        Anne Frank   Best?
  • A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.
        Chuang-tzu   Best?
  • A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
        George S. Patton   Best?
  • It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
        Karl Marx   Best?
  • It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
        Randy K. Milholland   Best?
  • Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  • Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
        Robert F. Kennedy   Best?
  • It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
        Margaret Cho   Best?
  • About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
        Herbert Hoover   Best?
  • If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
        Lee Iacocca   Best?
  • We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
        Roald Dahl   Best?
  • There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
        J. S. Bach   Best?
  • You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
        Jeff Melvoin   Best?
  • In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.
        T.S. Elliot   Best?
  • I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
        Shirley Chisholm   Best?
  • If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son!
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?

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