"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."

Time, People

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"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Time, Today, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

Explore more quotes by Jean Rostand

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Being, Nobility

"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."

God, Man

"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."

Criticism, Opposition, Praise

"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."

Work, Science, Body, Chance

"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."

Books, Past, Surprises, Want

"In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."

Politics, Lie, Today, Yesterday

"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."

Interest,

"There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past."

Men, Future, Moments, Past

"In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day."

Day, Order, Party

"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."

Time, People