Time Quotes

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

I want my name to mean me.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

People are more than just the way they look.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

All who are born are always dying.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.

You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

I find people confusing.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.