Quotes About Time

He won't come here. We'll have to go to San Francisco." "Like it's still 1967." "What?" Reacher said, "Nothing.

Waiting is a skill, just like everything else. ~Jack Reacher

Some old guy once said the meaning of life is that it ends. Which was inescapably true. No one lives forever.

A clock on the wall ticked up to a Cyrillic twelve, the top of the hour, and vodka went down in price by half. Happy hour.

Combat is about time and space and opposing forces. Like a huge four-dimensional diagram. First step is misinform the enemy. Let him think your diagram is a completely different shape. You assume all communications are penetrated, and then you use them to spread lies and deceit. You buy yourself an advantage

Piet Mondrian was his favourite painter of all time, and this exact picture was his favourite work of all time. The title was Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue. Mondrian had painted the original in 1930 and Reacher had seen it in Zurich, Switzerland.

Yard work summed up the whole futile procedure. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later.

14. 61 horas (61 Hours)

Tell me how you talk for a minute without using the letter A." Delfuenso said, "You were asleep." McQueen said, "I haven't slept for seven months." Reacher said, "Easy. Just start counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so on. You don't hit a letter A until you get to a hundred and one. You can even do it real fast and still get nowhere near ninety-nine inside a minute.

would take at least another hour for

IT WAS ANOTHER HOUR BEFORE ANYTHING SHOWED UP.

Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays.

Dawn on New Year's Day is as close as any inhabited place gets to absolute stillness.

What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.

Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.

for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.

Space and time emerge from the laws rather than providing an arena in which things happen.

there is nothing real or true that is timeless

Of course, there really is no chicken and egg problem; certainly there were eggs long before there were chickens.)

You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~

I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.