Quotes About Time

Sei bitte nicht naiv. Dieses Land ist so alt oder so jung wie alle anderen." "Aber hier habe ich das Gefühl, dass noch alles möglich ist.

Und, dass es Glück war wird man erst aus der Distanz sehen.

Man darf nichts erwarten, nur so hält man durch. Geduld reicht nicht, weil nichts geschieht. Im Wald gibt es keine Zukunft und keine Vergangenheit, alles findet im Moment statt oder über Zeiträume, die nicht in Jahren gemessen werden können.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless.

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.

now. The burden of it was that if you try to follow now, and be lucky enough

It takes at least 100 human generations for agricultural societies to develop into states

I love history. It's so old." - Attributed to Peter Ustinov.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealor revelator. Look at it rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What's that," I asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.

As the tide washed in,the Dutch Tulip man face the ocean: "Conjoiner,rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator.Look at it,raising up and raising down,taking everything with it." "What's that",I asked. "Water",the Dutchman said"Well,and time".

The past is no Roman road, but more often a maze...

Whether there are any links between the nature of the serial murders and the collapse of the two regimes is an open question at this time.

You are important enough to invest the time and energy needed for the change you want. Commit to becoming the person you wish to be and carve out the time for what needs to be done!

I'm insignificant?" Geoff said, standing up from his rock. "I don't matter?" ... You see, because most people have an influence on the course of history, we can't ask them to do this job becasue we'd be interfering with the past. You, however, are so insignificant, that even if I were to kill you on the spot, history would remain completely unchanged.

They never experience the past tense. It's just another thread to them. They don't remember stuff, they relive it.

We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

We all come into the story half way through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.

The abyss is a desert; no one can afford the luxury of waiting for better odds.

Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategies cadged from biology can keep the mutations at bay forever. It was true for us meatsicles cycling through mayfly moments every thousand years; it was just as true for the hardware.

hyperbolic discounting, and

TRY TO TOUCH THE PAST. TRY TO DEAL WITH THE PAST. IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S JUST A DREAM. —Ted Bundy

I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space.