#passage

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. ↗

— James Taylor

#life #passage #secret #time

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#always #befall #changes #environment #healthy

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#dogs #dream #memory #passage #time

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#passage-of-time #time #future

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nights #passage-of-time #time #dreams

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#history #kind #lots #models #passage

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#action #agencies #been #before #decisive

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#area #because #comedy #detective #done

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even