#passing

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#change #time-passing #youth #change

That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life #time-passing #change

Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a new begins. If there was one thing on this earth that could be counted on, it was that. Time never paused to mourn the dead. That particular privilege is allotted to the living. It is for the survivor to mourn, bury the dead, and leave the rest to the earth. That is the way of it – the way of death - and the misery it leaves behind. ↗

— Patti Roberts

#mourn #time-passing #death

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time. ↗

— Mel Carnahan

#cracking #crime #crimes #down #laws

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#cannot #cap #council #effect #general

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#goal #just #never #passing #then

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#able #accountant #accounting #been #certified

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #i do #passing #privacy #suspect

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #compromise #constitution #embodied #expedient

I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them. ↗

— Will Oldham

#cities #city #even #few #going