Quotes About Time

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.

Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction.

Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow imagined his younger self standing down the timeline of his present life, bare toes curling in teenage beach sand, looking ahead to today and watching his future life collapse in on itself like a dying star. His future life becoming small and dark and dense, its gravity apparently grim and inescapable. Once in a very blue moon, John Tallow spent some cash on a bottle of vodka and drank it at home within an hour.

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

Bloody Wolf Blitzer intoning that a weather bomb is going to detonate over America because the planet hates humans and time is a flat circle.

It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon.

Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction. I

If you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do.

if we're having a bad time now, we were given a really rockbottom thorough training for it these past three hundred years and more." "Past is past," Mister Eddie says and he said it real easy. "Except when it's present," Lance says.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday…and the other day I do not worry about is tomorrow.

Everything shows up in Divine time. We get what we need on the schedule of a force much larger than ourselves. This invisible force moves the pieces around in its own way, in its own time, to harmonize with the perfect precision that defines every cubic inch of space and time.

Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And yes, you have a future, but not now!

Past—present—future in a timeless dimension are simply all occurring at the same time, even if our time-based dimension sees it otherwise.

Am I going to be in the same office doing the same thing? Am I going to live 90 years? Or am I going to live one year, 90 times, over and over again?

learn to think in moments, rather than in days, weeks, months, years, decades, or a lifetime. All we ever get is right now—that's it.

The power of an idea whose time has come is really the power of Spirit at work. Equality for all is how God is, for instance, and we seek to be like God. When enough of us, along with one or two at visionary consciousness, begin to contemplate these in-Spirit ideas, they can't be stopped.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

There is only one moment in which you can experience anything, and that is now, yet a great deal of time is thrown away by dwelling on past or future experiences. Turning your now into total fulfillment is the touchstone of effective living, and virtually all self-defeating behaviors (erroneous zones) are efforts at living in a moment other than the current one.

have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times?

There you have the deferrer's delight. As long as you say maybe, or hope, or wish, you can use these as a rationale for not doing anything now. All wishing and hoping are a waste of time—the folly of fairyland residents.