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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Henry Walter Bates

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

There is a time for departure, even when there is no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice
forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge
and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words
devout and large,
that we are each other's
harvest:
we are each other's
business:
we are each other's
magnitude and bond.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend the time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Norodom Sihanouk

In the middle of August I did not consider that the time had come for us to despair of a successful conclusion of the war. In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out. I fully realised what the homeland had already borne in the way of sacrifices and privations and what they would possibly still have to bear.

Paul von Hindenburg

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Charles Babbage

I believe that everything has its own season, and each hour its law. If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel — nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

James J. Gibson

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.