Quotes About Time

More precisely, he placed the most recent common ancestor of DRC60 and ZR59 in the year 1908, give or take a margin of error.

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Everything important we learn too late.

Time does not heal all wounds. Some pain becomes part of who you are.

number of years a person lives has nothing to do with whether or not they've lived a full life. Eighty years is a lot of years, I guess, when compared to twenty years. But just because a person has lived a lot of years doesn't mean they've lived a full life.

You may suppose that time is only passing-away, and do not understand that time never arrives. . . . People only see time's coming and going, and do not thoroughly understand that being-time abides in each moment. Being-time has the quality of flowing. . . . Because flowing is a quality of time, moments of past and present do not overlap or line up side by side.

Once we realize we are time, however, we experience something that sounds paradoxical when we try to express it: the now does not change (it is always now) but flows (that now never ceases to transform). While the now is immutable in the sense that it is always the same now, rather than a series of fleeting nows, nevertheless there is transformation, although experienced differently once one is the transformation rather than an observer of it.

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

Most of the major events of human history gradually lose their meaning: wars that seemed at the time all

Still, there was a heaviness to her manner, a kind of grim determination to get a message across, one last time.

Winnie would never be free of religious thinking, and she couldn't imagine ever wanting to be. She just needed a new schedule for her faith, one whose appointments with the divine were arranged not only through sermons, songs, and scripture, but rather on a walk-in basis with rocks, water, air, blood, space, and time.

Time seemed to fly-- as happens, they say, when you are having fun. I guess sometimes clichés were actually coined for legitimate reasons.

Steel on the skyline Sky made of glass Made for a real world All things must pass Ooo Waiting for something Looking for someone Is there no reason?

Never gonna fall for Modern love walks beside me. Modern love walks on by. Modern love gets me to the church on time. Church on time terrifies me. Church on time makes me party. Church on time puts my trust in God and man. God and man no confessions. God and man no religion. God and man don't believe in modern love.

Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.

out here in "the real world," every day was sort of like the one before. I guess that's why people freaked out about birthdays: Those at least put a stake in the ground, somehow ended one chapter and opened a next.

He relents and says he'll meet with me tomorrow in his Manhattan office. That will give me time to do a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the parking.

The present is a point just passed.

But just before Atala fell, our society had turned aggressive, warlike. We had become dominated by our males." She angled her head. "We would have been better off following the Crones. Perhaps it is time to do so again.

Indications, of course, are not enough. Knowledge of the time must be combined with obedience -- what social scientists like to call time discipline. The indications are in effect commands, for responsiveness to these cues is imprinted on us and we ignore them at our peril.

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

the invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this history of mankind -- not in a class with fire and the wheel, but comparable to movable type in its revolutionary implications for cultural values, technological change, social and political organization, and personality.

The invention of the mechanical clock was one of a number of major advances that turned Europe from a weak, peripheral, highly vulnerable outpost of Mediterranean civilization into a hegemonic aggressor.

We earn the right to communicate electronically by the time and energy we invest in communicating personally.