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Time Quotes by John Steinbeck
- The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech…
- A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
- One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.
- Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
- The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to…
- Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
- We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
- Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning…
- Time is the only critic without ambition.
- I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned…
- These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them…
- You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that…
- He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.
- As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much…
- I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked…
- Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
- Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and…
- It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which…
- Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of…
- Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
- And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive…
- The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of…
- It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
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