quotes about time

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~Jeanette Rankin



Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. ~Will Rogers



We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne



Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin



A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca



Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck



My heart is glass, daily shattered. ~Jaesse Tyler



To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~Chinese Saying



The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ~Joan Collins



A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. ~Henry David Thoreau



For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? ~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet" (Thanks, Roxalanne)



Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus



What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. ~Friedrich Holderlin



For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis



Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~Joseph Campbell



Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown



Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Terri Guillemets