“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.”

Variant: Mr Right:
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

Ensign Roderick Venables, p. 20
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fortress (1999)

As quoted in No Commercial Potential : The Saga of Frank Zappa (1972) by David Walley, p. 3.
Context: I consider that the building materials are exactly the same as what anybody else makes the thing out of. It's just the way they look at those materials is perhaps a narrower perspective. Time and those waves are at the disposal of anyone who wants to use them.

Shouting out aloud during proceedings of the Agartala conspiracy trial. It was in response to a journalist, to whom he was whispering, who told him that it was inappropriate to talk under the watch of undercover officers. http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2008/08/04/chintito.htm <br class="br">Quote, Other

Source: 2000s, The Age of Turbulence (2008), Chapter One, "City Kid", p. 36.

Variant: ... the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Source: As I Lay Dying

Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 1, In the beginning, p. 3