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Quotes About Chronology

The thought that this happened and then this happened and then this and this and this, the relentless march of event and emotion tied together simply because day follows day and turns into week following week becoming months and years reinforces the fact that the only logical ending for chronological order is death.
~ Abigail Thomas
Time brings all things to pass.
~ Aeschylus
History is one damn thing after another.
~ H. A. L. Fisher
There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year, and X years in a life. Solve for X.
~ Jenny Offill
Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.
~ Ann Brashares
I think 'Apricot Princess' actually came out before 'Flower Boy.'
~ Rex Orange County
History does not unfold: it piles up.
~ Robert M. Adams
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
~ Albert Einstein
Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
~ Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once
~ Albert Einstein
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once
~ Albert Einstein
Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,
~ Donna McDonald
Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.
~ Dorothy Gambrell
Einstein once quipped that time's only purpose was to make sure that everything didn't happen at once.
~ Douglas E. Richards
779 AUC (Ab Urbe Condita)
~ Douglas E. Richards
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
the only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at
~ Ann Napolitano
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
~ Anonymous
Analogies with the past are never properly accurate and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading, but in pure chronology I sometimes wonder if we're not in the 1920s or 1930s again... This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.
~ Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
~ Anthony Doerr
Gaius was born in 20 B.C. and Lucius in 17.
~ Anthony Everitt
The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.
~ John Sayles
And When is not what matters. It's what happens in the When that matters.
~ Madeleine L'Engle