Time Quotes
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.
Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?
If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.
The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?
I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5
... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
