... the Hatter [said], tossing his head contemptuously. "I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cauti...ously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I learn music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He wo'n't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. for instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just in time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half past one, time for dinner!" I rarely disobeyed Daddy, both because of my respect for him and because I knew that punishment for my transgressions would be certain and sometimes severe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I spend so many times for skating, and I gave up so many hobbies for this ... the Olympics are four years in time. And I am old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair--a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its pa...rts, and through their good order to one another. It cannot be called good as a whole until it is finished. During the process all we can say of it, if we speak precisely, is that it is becoming good. The same is true of a whole human life. Just as the whole performance never exists at any one time, but is a process of becoming, so a human life is also a performance in time and a process of becoming. And just as the goodness that attaches to the performance as a whole does not attach to any of its parts, so the goodness of a human life as a whole belongs to it alone, and not to any of its parts or phases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That air would disappear from the whole earth in time, perhaps; but long after his day. He did not know just when it had become so... necessary to him, but he had come back to die in exile for the sake of it. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself n...atural science: there will be one science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children feel more but you have to know more ...about what they feel. In time of peace what children feel concerns the lives of children as children but in time of war there is a mingling there is not children's lives and grown up lives there is just lives and so quite naturally you have to know what children feel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dear Friend, the canebrakes... nestled in the riverbank's lap, their clusters broken from the weight of blue bees, have in time become stumps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »