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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

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

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Louis de Bernières

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

George Saintsbury

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

Henry Charles Carey

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Alfred de Vigny

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments. As a puzzle-solving activity, normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Why then should I clothe him to make him look ridiculous in the foolish masculine fashions of his time? There is nothing more banal than these statues of recent notabilities, to be seen in every big city of Europe, masquerading as tailors' models of their ugly period. Man's naked form on the other hand belongs to no particular moment in history ; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Holbrook Jackson

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin Pierce Adams

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"

Robert Browning

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley