Quotes of: Time-flies Keyword

I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

Crash

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Cosmos

When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.

Cowboys Don't Sing

Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Dead Beat

God, now she knew what decent men felt like, the disquiet before taking someone for their first time.

Dead After Dark

How will I go on without her?! The answer was very simple: one day at a time.

Dumb Jock

Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.

Daimones

Begin when you have the strength. You have it now; therefore the best time to begin is now.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

Day Watch

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Ender's Game

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

Essays in Satanism