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"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
"Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty."
"Cause she hold me down every time I hit her up. When I get right I promise that we gon live it up."
"The times they are a-changing."
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
"Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different."
"Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere."
"You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."
"Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life."
"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
"Time spent with a cat is never wasted."
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."
"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."
"Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments."
