Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.
A Child of Promiseβ, BYU Speeches, 4 May 1986
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Magnus deeply disliked people who were early to business meetings. It was just as bad as being late, since it put everyone out, and even worse, people who were early always acted terribly superior about their bad timekeeping skills. They acted as though it were morally more righteous to get up early than to stay up late, even if you got the same amount of work done in the exact same amount of time. Magnus found it to be one of the great injustices of life.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?
Give time time.
Let every man be master of his time.
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.
Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.
