I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
Robertson DaviesTags: time clocks daylight-savings
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil GibranTags: time today tomorrow timelessness yesterday
The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.
Bill CosbyTags: past future present time dream ghost
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Eugene O'NeillTime was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.
Patricia BriggsTags: time
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
Dante AlighieriTags: wisdom time aging impatience
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
Khaled HosseiniTags: time
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
Peter O'DonnellTags: time language slang setting pop-culture chronology
I spur my horse past the ruined city;
the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts:
ancient battlements, high and low;
old grave mounds, great and small.
Where the shadow of a single tumbleweed trembles
and the voice of the great trees clings forever,
I sigh over all these common bones --
No roll of the immortals bears their names.
Tags: time wind ozymandias translator-burton-watson
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