Quotes About Time

I told you, lass. One hour or a million. 'Tis enough for me

Because there is a time for all things. My people, like you, believe in peace. But sometimes, the only way to have peace is to fight for it. (Zenobia)

Serenity couldn't speak. His smile grew wider.) Take your time. Women do that a lot around me. (Stanley)

For every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven: A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance. -Christian's thoughts

Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there.

Everything is drawn inexorably toward the future.

No matter how hard we may try, we can only travel forward. The relativistic laws guarantee it.

Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.

The first planet that Cooper and his crew visit is Miller's. The most impressive things about this planet are the extreme slowing of time there, gigantic water waves, and huge tidal gravity. All three are related, and arise from the planet's closeness to Gargantua.

Time, he realized, must be warped by the masses of heavy bodies such as the Earth or a black hole, and that warping is responsible for gravity. He embodied this insight in what I like to call "Einstein's law of time warps," a precise mathematical formula that I describe qualitatively this way: Everything likes to live where it will age the most slowly, and gravity pulls it there.

This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose time had already passed.

Le temps est fait pour avancer. Ne t'accommode pas d'une vie où il reste figé.

The men sat unbedding their rage, learning, as everyone does in this country, at one time or another, that old hatreds are endlessly retrievable.

Time should move," Noni had told her. "Don't go in for a life where time doesn't pass, the way I did. That is the single best bit of advice I can give you.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Sometimes I think we have no present, only the past.

The past was with my countrymen every moment of their lives. History for then was that fabled second chance. They could rework the past and get it right this time around.

Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.

My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.

Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death

I'm more than content to allow this mystery to unfold in its own time.

I'm more than content to allow this mystery to unfold in its own time. I don't need to hurry it along.