Mean Quote by Anne Carson Download Open image “A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.” — Anne Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mean Men Moving Thrown Time
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“So here we are, having arrived in a moment at the discretion of time. Time—the invisible substance that immerses us all. Time—the Colosseum in… — Pete Beebe Copy Share Image
A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unreachable. The string ahead is… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Time means little; I never notice its passing. -Amun — The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Copy Share Image
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch, a man… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Town of the Dragon Vein If you wake up too early listen for it. A sort of inverted whistling the sound of sound. Being… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image