Quotes of: Ny-times Keyword

... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

The Scriptlings

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

Secrets of Harmony Grove

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?" And he says, How much time do you want?

The Shit of God

The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.

Middlesex

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Memento mori

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

Milton a Poem

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began? Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

Master of Stupidity

Smartass Disciple: What were said for things before the time exist? Master of Stupidity: No words to be said by no man at no time at all.

Master of Stupidity

My love can only occupy one person at a time. I try for that person to not be me.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.

Night's Child

But he never forgot how once by not knowing time, He escaped into the clockless land of ever, Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born.

New and Collected Poems

I would wish you gods speed but I don’t want you to waste time looking for him.

The Navigator

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

The Lovely Bones

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Love in the Time of Cholera

The usual for me." The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.

Love in the Time of Cholera

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.

The Lady Elizabeth

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

LIFE

Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)

The Last Hour