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Time

«Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose»
Author: David Brainerd | About: Time | Keywords: slide
«One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun?which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...»
«Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.»
Author: Georgia O'Keeffe (Painter) | About: Friends, Time | Keywords: time like
«Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time»
Author: Georgia O'Keeffe (Painter) | About: Time | Keywords: time like
«Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future»
«No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.»
«One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet»
«Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | About: Deed, Time | Keywords: proper time, rush hour, try on
«Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.»
«Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years»