He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.
“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”
— Russell Hoban · Time
The World Motivation
He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.
“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”
— Russell Hoban · Time
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“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”
“If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.”
“Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.”
“Explorers have to be ready to die lost.”
“Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.”
“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”
“It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.”
“Nick... I hope one day you find you a woman who loves you like my Melissa loved me. Whatever you do, boy, don't turn your back on her. If she says she needs you for something, don't matter how stupid it sounds or what deadline you got, you go to her and you do it. Screw work or whatever else. In the end, the only things that matter are the people in your life. The ones who make your life worth living and whose smiles light up your world. Don't ever push them aside for fair-weather friends. Everything else is just cheap window dressing that you can replace. But once them people are gone..." He winced. "You can't buy back time, Nick. Ever. It's the only thing in life you can't get more of, and it's the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it's gone. It takes pity on no soul and no heart. And all those fools who tell you it gets easier in time are lying dumb-asses.”
“A dream is never realised in a day but through persistent actions over a long period of time.”
“Always account for each unit of passing time”
“Time is not what it is but how it is felt...”