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Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.

Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?

So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

Tempus fugit (time flies).