Quotes About Chronology

History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

The only two groups left who tell stories chronologically—at least in American culture—are lawyers and six-year-olds.

the thought went through his mind that beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time, that beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time.

beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time,...beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time.

History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just … well, things happening one after another.

There is no destination other than towards yet another refuge from yet another war. Many generations pass and many deceptions in the sequence in the chronology towards the destination.

If this is a straightforward historical account, God created evening, morning, and days without luminaries and then created luminaries in order to effect them.83 Are we really to conclude that the division occurs without the dividers? It seems reasonable to assume that the narrator has offered a dischronologized presentation of the events in order to emphasize a theological point. God is not dependent on the luminaries.

I harbored in my mind a sort of utopia about 'an age of genius' that supposedly existed in my life once upon a time, not in any calendar year but on a level above chronology, an age when everything blazed with godly colors and one took in the whole sky with a single breath, like a gulp of pure ultramarine.

Temporal» pot significar qualsevol període de temps.

Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.

Time only goes in that one direction.

97 days earlier

Creationists hold to an Ice Age that was triggered by the Flood. The Flood occurred about 2348 b.c., which is about 4,300 years ago.1 The secularists' most recent ice age was supposedly about 10,000 years ago (by their dating system).

In photography there is no meantime. There was just that moment and now there's this moment and in between there is nothing. Photography, in a way, is the negation of chronology.

Growth rings in trees are Nature's way of digitizing time.

Time brings all things to pass.

We are historical beings, unable to describe ourselves without describing ourselves in space and time.

See Chapter 37 for more on BC/BCE and AD/CE.

Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.

Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.

Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once.

An historical truth is only true once

If by "time" we mean nothing more than happening, then everything is time. There is only that which exists in time.

It is always heat and only heat that distinguishes the past from the future.