Time quotes
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"I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all."
"I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light."
"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."
"There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it."
"We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave."
"There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex."
"Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair."
"Occupation is the scythe of time."
"This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down."
"Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't."
"When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own."
"In politics a week is a very long time."
"How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear."
"Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature."
"Killing time is not an easy job."
"Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little."
"Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly."
"With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame."
"All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it."
"On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama."
