Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature--fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.
Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave. ” “Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe. ” Eeek.
Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.
As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce
I don't want to be known as a jerk forever.
You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.
Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.
And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.
Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.
Everything gets better with time, and time is forever.
For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.
Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.
In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever. " If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.
Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!
A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.
