Passage of time Quote by Esther Williams Download Open image “The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.” — Esther Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Passage of time Share Time Useless Wisdom
Time is a gift, a treasure not to be put aside for the future but to be used wisely in the present. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light. — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach ache Or the headaches I get from reading in bad light – A kind of measles of the spirit A mumps of the psyche, A disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking… — Billy Collins Copy Share
“Never yet has such furious movement brought in its train such slowness in the passage of time. Everything is spinning, only time stands still. The rotation goes on forever. And when the wheel finally stops spinning, the riders in their relief forget that they have paid money to enjoy themselves, and only had the fright of their lives. They feel… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“For everything there is a season. I'd miss having the seasons, people from New York like to say by way of indicating the extraordinary pride they take in not living in Southern California. In fact Southern California does have seasons (it has for example "fire season" or "the season when the fire comes," and it also has the season when… — Joan Didion Copy Share
“Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. ‘Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.’ Plato said that time and heaven must… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind's insistence that this was the same Regan he'd known… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close to an addiction. When things had been tough at home, Harriet’s solution had been to remove herself from life and disappear. She’d chosen to be invisible. Sometimes physically, by hiding under the table, but sometimes psychologically by diving into a literary world… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share
Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image