Quotes by Authors - Page 47

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!
Eliza Cook
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
Louis L'Amour
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.
Mary Catherwood
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
Adolf Hitler
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono
Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.
Amelia Barr
Thought is born of failure.
Lancelot Law Whyte
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'
Edith Hamilton
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fisher
Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.
Fogg Brackell
The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.
Henry James
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
John Galsworthy
Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.
Josiah Royce
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen
When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.
Theodore Roszak
An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.
Austin O'Malley
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
Victor Hugo
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E B White
Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.
Elizabeth Bowen
Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Hal Borland
Every April God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
Anonymous
No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.
Hal Borland
No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.
Rudyard Kipling
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
T.S Eliot
There's never an end for the sea.
Samuel Beckett
I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.
Rabindranath Tagore
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country.
Anonymous
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music we become inexplicably troubled.
H. M. Tomlinson
I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.
E B White
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Anonymous
Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
John F Kennedy
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Douglas Jerrold
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it but it's a kind iv a disgrace.
Finley Peter Dunne
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.
William Allen White
Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day a happy day.
Helen Boehm
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
Rollo May
We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.
Sydney Smith
Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
Hugh Prather
Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
Anonymous
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
J. A. Spender
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.
Mark Rutherford
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full complete harmonious joyous life this year.
Thomas Dreier
The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.
Anonymous
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.
Jonathan Swift
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
André Gide