Quotes About Chronology

The difference between past and future only exists when there is heat.

Wilder's "truth" was less a matter of fact than of her memories, feelings, and convictions. Her work was based on facts but not factual. It was historical fiction, not history. Its chronology, and certain incidents and characters, were invented, altered, and fictionalized.

Time feeds on us. We are food for time.

We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all.

What distinguishes the heptapods' mode of awareness is not just that their actions coincide with history's events; it is also that their motives coincide with history's purposes. They act to create the future, to enact chronology.

The heptapods are neither free nor bound as we understand those concepts; they don't act according to their will, nor are they helpless automatons. What distinguishes the heptapods' mode of awareness is not just that their actions coincide with history's events; it is also that their motives coincide with history's purposes. They act to create the future, to enact chronology.

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

Nothing exists without time, within which everything exists.

Laypeople. They think everything in the past happened at the same time.

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

The scholar Kathryn Bond Stockton writes about how the queer child "grows sideways," because queer life often defies the linear chronology of marriage and children.

You can measure time in days, weeks, months, or beards.

Is Daylight Saving Time a form of time travel?

History is not a series of causeless consequences. Event follows event in time, as minute follows minute in the day.

Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.

I must give the events in their proper sequence.

Deeming the unsubstantiated dogma of a localized religious cult to be an undignified and unsuitable base on which to erect the chronology of galactic man, the members of this convention hereby declare that time shall now be reckoned from the year 2000 A.D. (Old System), which becomes the year 0. The revolution of Earth about Sol remains the standard annual unit. — Declaration at the Oikumenical Convention for the Standardization of Units and Meters

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.

time only exists to stop everything happening at once.

Dates are given in the Julian calendar, in effect since the time of Julius Caesar.

Consider a favorite story—even a story from your own life. On a piece of paper, express this story in three ways. First, draw a straight line from left to right, with hash marks to indicate moments in time. Create a simple chronology: "just one thing after another." Then create a series of circles, showing recurring patterns in the story. Then create a series of triangles, showing trios of characters or ideas at different stages of the story.

Time sure flies when you skip an hour.