#time

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! ↗

— Edmund Waller

#how #part #share #small #sweet

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#day #hours #misspent #mostly #period

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#half #many #our #our time #spend

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq. ↗

— Kit Bond

#built #colleagues #democratic #insurgents #introducing

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do? ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#else #i #i do #myself #off

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ancient times #cats #forgotten #gods #times

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#aspect #centuries #come #during #evolved

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#being #darkness #daylight #into #moon

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#curse #darkness #light #sometimes #than