Famous quotes containing the words time and/or act:
“I cannot exaggerate the waste of the Presidents time and the consumption of his nervous vitality involved in listening to congressmens intercession as to local appointments. Why should the President have to have his time taken up in a discussion over ... who shall be the postmistress of Devils Lake, in North Dakota? How should he be able to know ... who is best fitted to fill such a place?”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerers apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)