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Time Quotes by Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I…
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,…
- What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.
- People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast…
- "Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole…
- Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
- The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or…
- Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past…
- Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts…
- Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not…
- Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so…
- Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If…
- Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
- A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and…
- Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold…
- For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end…
- How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it…
- So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to…
- Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such…
- Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it…
More Time Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- 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
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — 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
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud