"But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man."
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"But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man."
"With time we will all stop fighting pimples and start fighting wrinkles."
"Hope can kill you but it will not let you die."
"Most of the time, our fight is all about saving us from ourselves."
"Time is quixotic because it can torment us. When we have insufficient stimulus to fill our lives, we resent the relentless quality of time, and we engage in activities designed to “kill time.” Time that passes slowly creates insufferable boredom; time that passes to quickly makes us aware of our accelerated death march. A person’s perspective on time depends mostly on what they are most afraid of, boredom or death."
"For the next two weeks, the world and all other issues would be omitted. We were two people alone in a hospital room. We allowed no visitors. We had two weeks of near-silence with each other and my increasing helplessness. I tended to tangle the IV and misplace the oxygen tube. As I started to say earlier, I could feel no sensible interest in the future. The moments became extraordinarily dimensionless - not without value but flat and a great deal emptier. When you learn you're fatally ill, time becomes very confusing, perhaps uninteresting, pedestrian. But my not caring if I lived or died hurt Ellen. And I was grateful that I could indulge my cowardice toward death in terms of living for her."
"Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop."
"Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is."
"I wonder if He anticipates the day when He can make us understand what was occurring in our time of trial. I wonder if He broods over our sorrows."
"In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna."
"Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life."
"I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life."
"Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical."
"Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives."
"We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did."
"No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget."
"One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now."
"Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time."
"We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense."
"When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder."
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