Naguib Mahfouz
Novelist
"The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns."
Calendars quotes
Calendars
102 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model
"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure."
George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life."
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"I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs."
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"This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say."
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"Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar."
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"We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st."
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"History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man."
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"The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out."
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"The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar."
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"Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection."
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"Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you."
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"Death keeps no calendar."
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"There are only two days on my calendar... today and the day of judgment"
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"The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view."
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"You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?"
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"Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle."
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"My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge."
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"On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love."
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"I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar."
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"I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars."
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"I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook."
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"Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them."
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