Famous quotes containing the words time and/or act:
“For five years I have seen her each day, and each time I believe it is for the first time.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)