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Timely Quotes (page 711)

I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass. Leo Tolstoy
Bob Marley quote: "I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs..."
I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981) Bob Marley
I’m wondering, if there was something you wanted, had wanted for some time, what would you do about it?” “If I’ve wanted it, why don’t I have it?” “Because you haven’t made any real effort to get it as yet.” “And why haven’t I?” He arched his sandy brows. “Am I slow or just stupid?” Brenna thought it over, decided he couldn’t know he’d just insulted his firstborn. Nora Roberts
One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can’t cope with. Douglas Adams
Paulo Coelho quote: "It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain..."
It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now. Paulo Coelho
At this moment (letting a breeze ripple through her fingers like warm water), Maggie felt that the entire business of time's passing was more than she could bear. Anne Tyler
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change. Meryl Streep
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing. Franz Kafka
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality. James Allen
Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are thensimply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to follow so thatwe can act in cooperation, as we agree about inches and hours, numbersand words, mathematical systems and languages. If we have noagreement about measures of time and space, I would have no way ofmaking a date with you at the corner of Forty-second Street and FifthAvenue at 3 P.M. on Sunday, April 4. Alan Watts
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Emily Bronte
John Adams quote: "this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as..."
this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep. John Adams
Samuel Johnson quote: "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in..."
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. Samuel Johnson
The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary. She knew how to hit to a hair’s-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint if day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions. Thomas Hardy
So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least to me, on the old unanswerable philosophical questions. And as I spin out the action, I’m always very concerned with springing discoveries -- actual philosophical discoveries. But at the same time I’m concerned -- and finally more concerned -- with what the discoveries do to the character who makes them, and to the people around him. It’s that that makes me not really a... John Gardner

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