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Time Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as…
- We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
- We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a…
- There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our…
- We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two…
- In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
- In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies…
- Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such…
- Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough…
- If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
- There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
- The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
- Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of…
- When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything…
- It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.
- Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the…
- Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
- A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where…
- Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get…
- Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to…
- Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your…
- Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they…
- Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your…
- Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,…
- If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few…
More Time Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani