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Quotes About Time

Per lui, ogni goccia che cadeva era un attimo che moriva. Sentiva il tempo scorrere dentro di lui, e ogni istante non poteva esser più ricatturato. Sentì il bisogno di prendere una decisione, ma non aveva la forza di muoversi.
~ Frank Herbert
Descobrimos o futuro no passado e ambos fazem parte de um todo.
~ Frank Herbert
Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres solo prestaban atención a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les hicieran libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas los esclavizaran
~ Frank Herbert
History holds its own court and delivers its own judgements,' he said. 'I doubt that I'll be concerned when my judgement's handed down.
~ Frank Herbert
the chant for those committed to the desert, the ones whose water went to Shai-hulud: "Mother of sand, father of Time, beginning of Life, grant him passage.
~ Frank Herbert
this was a living moment, a time to discover regularities within perpetual change, an instant in which to feel that long movement from their Terranic past, all of it encapsulated in her memories.
~ Frank Herbert
He felt anew the hyperillumination with its high-relief imagery of time, sensed his future becoming memories
~ Frank Herbert
The dark rectangle of a doorway appeared on his right - black in black: Otheym's house, Fate's house, a place different from the ones around it only in the role Time had chosen for it. It was a strange place to be marked down in history.
~ Frank Herbert
He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
~ Frank Herbert
On my arrival I was told to come to this place at this time. That is what I know." The least thing that is known shall govern your acts. This was the course of evidence for the Gowachin. McKie's response put a legal burden on his questioner.
~ Frank Herbert
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life
~ Frank Herbert
The clock there had not been properly adjusted to local time, and she had to subtract twenty-one minutes to determine that it was about 2 A.M. The
~ Frank Herbert
A time of love and a time of grief.
~ Frank Herbert
trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space. There
~ Frank Herbert
Carnea cedeaz?, gândi el. Eternitatea îÈ™i ia înapoi ceea ce-i aparÈ›ine. Trupurile noastre au agitat, o vreme, apele. O vreme, am fost intoxicaÈ›i de dragoste de via??, de dragoste de sine, o vreme am nutrit câteva idei stranii, înainte de a ne supune instrumentelor Timpului.
~ Frank Herbert
He could see it stretching ahead of him, a time of relative quiet in a hidden sietch, a moment of peace between periods of violence.
~ Frank Herbert
In haste, MF.
~ Frank Herbert
He knew this was among the alternatives today, a fact along lines of the future radiating from this position in time-space.
~ Frank Herbert
Hrvaš li se sa snovima? Boriš li se sa sjenama? Osje?aš li se kao da spavaš? Vrijeme je isteklo. Život ti je ukraden. Potrošio si ga na sitnice, ti žrtvo vlastitih ludosti.
~ Frank Herbert
Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless muttering of old women. He remembered open waters and waves - days of grass instead of sand - dazed summers that had whipped past him like windstorms leaves. [...] I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what ? An old woman's greed.
~ Frank Herbert
I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
~ Frank Herbert
There's no substitute for time in solving many problems,' Leto said. 'However, you can place too much reliance on it. I can accept no more delays.
~ Frank Herbert
And he wondered: What is the now?
~ Frank Herbert
Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
~ Frank Herbert