Quotes About Time

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

I love you present tense.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

O Time and change! -- with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

These examples both demonstrate that the laws of physics, notably Newton's laws, are time-reversible. They work just as well backwards in time as forwards, and there is no place in them for the second law of thermodynamics. The fundamental laws of physics do not distinguish between past and future.

The image that emerges from quantum physics is similar in some ways to the way that the illusion that air, or water is a continuous fluid emerges. Myriad tiny particles separated by tiny gaps feels to you like a smooth fluid. Myriad quantum states separated by tiny gaps feels to you like a smooth flow of time. Zeno was right. The arrow of time points, but it does not move. THE

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

Na solidão da noite, quase conseguia sentir a finitude da vida e como ela era preciosa. Nós damo-la como garantida, mas ela é frágil, precária, incerta, susceptível de acabar a qualquer momento sem aviso. Lembrei-me daquilo que devia ser evidência mas nem sempre é: que vale a pena saborear cada dia, cada hora e cada minuto das nossas vidas.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

all history in some ways wishes to say something about its own present time.

It is because the ancients made astronomical calculations in base 60 that we still use this system for measuring time, dividing an hour into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds. In its path through the heavens, the sun takes roughly 360 days (actually 365.242199) to describe a complete circle, so it seems that the Babylonians divided a complete circle into 360 degrees (°).

So on day one God created the basis for time; day two the basis for weather; and day three the basis for food. These three great functions—time, weather and food—are the foundation of life. If we desire to see the greatest work of the Creator, it is not to be found in the materials that he brought together—it is that he brought them together in such a way that they work.

The heaven of stars bends over me in silence, a harp through which the wind of time still whispers music some hand has hushed but left there trembling-- where time has made such music!

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

Tomorrow is soon enough to contemplate the multitude of your sins." He

Nothing was made before me but eternal things, And I endure eternally. The voice belonged to X. Jason was home, indeed.

At twenty-three, Johnny didn't smile without reason or waste time on people he found insincere.

Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.