Quotes About Chronology

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

A creative design to everything demands a Time Keeper to exist. It was born out from the womb of primordial time!

The only way to go back in time is by moving into the future

Executive teams we have worked with can often, in hindsight, lay out a clear chronology of the stages of their organization's development and the events that triggered the transition from one stage to the next. But in the moment these same people found it very difficult to describe exactly what was happening.

The exact kill mechanisms are still being worked out, but the chronology has now convincingly implicated the volcanic culprit. At just the precise geological moment when most species suddenly dropped dead, a hot plume rising from the mantle caused enormous floods of volcanic magma to pour forth from the Siberian ground, warming Earth, acidifying the oceans, and creating a host of other extreme environmental changes. Most of life just couldn't cope. Whether

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

History's just one darn thing after another.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

Time?" - "Can only be coming from the future, passing through the present, and going into the past.

Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.

I could now (possibly) go back and restretch those shrunken hours, flake the images separate, arrange them in accurate chronological order, (possibly; with will-power, patience, and the proper chemicals) but being accurate is not necessarily being honest.... Nor is chronological reporting by any means always the most truthful (each camera has its own veracity) especially when, in all good faith, one cannot truthfully claim to remember what happened accurately....

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Y el tiempo no obedece a órdenes

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

twelve years and eight months

Its inscription, "Time waits for No Man," is an old punning device on the word gnomon. At

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Travel backwards in time? I don't see any future in it.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

But Outsider Art is its own context. I don't have to know all about the Impressionists or the Abstract Expressionists. I don't have to be able to fit this art into any historic chronology. I don't feel like an ignoramus. Irony of ironies, I don't feel like an outsider—to fall in love I only need eyes.