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210ee78 Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun. time literature jeanette-winterson Jeanette Winterson
5387d1e Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated. time violation regret Jeanette Winterson
cce0dd9 If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me. universe time observe movement physics Jeanette Winterson
ae5b531 En de tijd die zo gestaag en zo zeker voorbijgaat slaat voorbij de klokken op hol. Het kost zo weinig tijd om een leven te veranderen en het kost een heel leven om die verandering te begrijpen. time Jeanette Winterson
3fee935 Vieni jausmai laika pagreitina, kiti suletina, o kartais atrodo, kad jis dingsta - kol galop ateina akimirka, kai jis is tiesu dingsta ir jau niekada nebesugrizta time Julian Barnes
d13e896 "What had Old Joe Hunt answered when I knowingly claimed that history was the lies of the victors? "As long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated." Do we remember that enough when it comes to our private lives?" time memories life memory Julian Barnes
5049034 As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be. time Yann Martel
de10719 It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials - I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered - it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments. time kiss life love moment Susan Vreeland
2af2952 Please God, whatever I was I am no longer....All is forgotten, if not forgiven--it could have come to that. But I don't trust the thought. I don't know if it's because it would be too easy or too terrible to imagine no one cares anymore. time self-knowledge remorse insignificance memory Tim Winton
eb2e08f Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man? time spirituality death life-lessons jewish-identity Chaim Potok
41729e3 Parents need to see that every situation that their kids find themselves in is a teaching situation, and they need to take the time to explore cost and effect. So talking to your children, explaining things to children as to why things happen in the world. Getting them to see cost and relationships between events is the best way to increase comprehension skills. Daynette Gardiner, the best School Psychologist in The Bahamas. time cost-and-effects cost-and-relationships learning-opportunities teachable-moments teaching-situation parenthood Drexel Deal
15104fe Typical Pollution, they're always living in the wrong place at the wrong time. time wrong living typical pollution place Rebecca McNutt
a1cddba It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it. time Ursula K. Le Guin
8ad1cda ...life is an argument with the world over time. time world Colson Whitehead
095532b It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking. time multitasking luxury Michael Pollan
07002ee "L'Horloge Horloge! dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible, Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit: "Souviens-toi! Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d'effroi Se planteront bientot comme dans une cible; Le plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l'horizon Ainsi qu'une sylphide au fond de la coulisse ; Chaque instant te devore un morceau du delice A chaque homme accorde pour toute sa saison. Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la Seconde Chuchote: Souviens-toi! - Rapide, avec sa voix D'insecte, Maintenant dit: Je suis Autrefois, Et j'ai pompe ta vie avec ma trompe immonde! Remember! Souviens-toi, prodigue! Esto memor! (Mon gosier de metal parle toutes les langues.) Les minutes, mortel folatre, sont des gangues Qu'il ne faut pas lacher sans en extraire l'or! Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avide Qui gagne sans tricher, a tout coup! c'est la loi. Le jour decroit; la nuit augmente; souviens-toi! Le gouffre a toujours soif; la clepsydre se vide. Tantot sonnera l'heure ou le divin Hasard, Ou l'auguste Vertu, ton epouse encor vierge, Ou le repentir meme (oh! la derniere auberge!), Ou tout te dira: Meurs, vieux lache! il est trop tard!" time regrets Charles Baudelaire
ee1a9c3 There's a reason we live in time. We are too small a flask [...] to tolerate too much knowing. Instead, truth must drip through us as through a pipette, to allow only moments of apprehension. Moments diffuse and miniature enough to be survived. understanding time truth moments memory Gregory Maguire
30036a1 Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner? Time spent this way might be easier than cooking but it is not enjoyable & surely not ennobling. It is to feel spiritually unemployed, useless to self & humanity. time homemade foodie food Michael Pollan
2818419 When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort. time wisdom Tad Williams
69f6c22 Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in the now, as intensity. time living love hindsight insight Rachel Kushner
ab2f07f It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time. time physics Jim Butcher
bc02838 The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or sorrow or wonder than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now. present time past now Richard Flanagan
290688d "Yes, you have been away a very long time. " "Oh, centuries and centuries; so long," she said, "that I'm sure I'm dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;" time foreigner coming-home Edith Wharton
82217a8 But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick. time inevitable-law-of-life Michael Cunningham
e70168a At this time, the cusp of the modern age, the hinge of the nineteenth century, had a plebiscite been taken amongst all the inhabitants of the world, by far the great number of them, occupied as they were throughout the planet with daily business of agriculture of the slash and burn variety, warfare, metaphysics and procreation, would have heartily concurred with these indigenous Siberians that the whole idea of the twentieth century, or any other century at all, for that matter, was a rum notion. Had the global plebiscite been acted upon in a democratic manner, the twentieth century would have forthwith ceased to exist, the entire system of dividing up years by one hundred would have been abandoned and time, by popular consent, would have stood still. time Angela Carter
cd52da2 A deep belief that your moment in time is the pinnacle, the only standard of judgment extending from the creation of light until the black apocalypse, that what you believe right now is eternal truth because you believe it so fervently--those deep beliefs so crucial at the moment but none of them more permanent than a puff of air across a palmful of dry talcum. time truth Charles Frazier
a3a5d17 Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be. time Yann Martel
a0da58a God can only show you eternity if you are willing to let go completely of the now. time god Sean Patrick Brennan
abc66ef His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on the idea, as suggestive as it is fantastic, that antiquity has no need of repetitions enacted in subsequent periods, because it 'essentially' returns constantly on its own strength. In other words, antiquity - or the ancient - is not an overcome phase of cultural development that is only represented in the collective memory and can be summoned by the wilfulness of education. It is rather a kind of constant present - a depth time, a nature time, a time of being - that continues underneath the theatre of memory and innovation that occupies cultural time. time antiquity cultural-time ancient friedrich-nietzsche modernity Peter Sloterdijk
5abceff We are wasting time. Time wastes itself. Who are we to float in its way? time wasted-time wasting-time waste Iain M. Banks
e04a5e9 Palmira. She's like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time. time daughters Susan Vreeland
0668802 The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. time shed window last Mitch Albom
f123ad8 He had suddenly come to realize a single facet of the promised jewel; he had Time, Time for everything that he wished to happen, such Time that desire itself was quenched in the certainty of fulfillment. time James Hilton
ee974bb What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future. time memories metaphors Jeanette Winterson
0213f6b Something changed in the world. Not too long ago, it changed, and we know it. We don't know how to explain it yet, but I think we all can feel it, somewhere deep in our gut or in our brain circuits. We feel time differently. No one has quite been able to capture what is happening or say why. Perhaps it's just that we sense an absence of future, because the present has become too overwhelming, so the future has become unimaginable. And without future, time feels like only an accumulation. time the-world modernity Valeria Luiselli
b80c457 I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me? time work change life unsatisfied Mitch Albom
6a2a081 But of course, in one sense, Dean never died - his existence is superior to such accidents. One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them. And they become real through our envy, our devotion. It is we who give them their majesty, their power, which ourselves could never possess. And in turn, they give some back. But they are mortal, these heroes, just as we are. They do not last forever. They fade. They vanish. They are surpassed, forgotten - one hears of them no more. time remeberance role-model hero memory James Salter
069dd70 She had learned, long ago and in the intervening years when she was apart from all she loved, that to endure the most troubling times she had to break down time itself--one carefully crafted stitch after the other. If consideration of what the next hour might hold had been too difficult, then she thought only of another half and hour. time grief Jacqueline Winspear
9d24bc1 Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities, surface towards us, then sink away. Some we hook out, others we ignore, and as the pattern changes, so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time, which returns everything, changes everything. time history meaning life objectivity subjectivity memory Jeanette Winterson
ac5aeb9 Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you. time life Elizabeth Gilbert
d9a73b0 This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages. evolution time evolutionism Stephen Jay Gould
473fa3a You will not be here--I shall not be here--much longer.' time mortality love A.S. Byatt
e964986 Ik dacht, het is jammer dat we moeten leven, maar het is doodzonde dat we maar een leven krijgen, want als ik twee levens had gehad, had ik er eentje met haar doorgebracht. Dan was ik bij haar in de flat blijven wonen, time Jonathan Safran Foer
44b8af2 Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. It is as if I could dip my hand down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country. I can feel that other day running underneath this one like an old videotape time loss love losing-love repetition grieving Anne Carson
abc92fd Inogda luchshe vse ostavit' kak est'. Vremia - ne prialka. Vremia - priazha. time time-travel Ben Elton
68dd477 But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that. ill time reason life important think end dying Mitch Albom
2f2a032 The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of. present time history past reflection introspection memory Iris Murdoch
dd9746a It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it. time waste Mitch Albom
90e34b3 "Today is a hard day." Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope." time pain hope hard-day hopeful room Libba Bray
6bb9adc Kai laiko turi be galo, niekas nebera ypatinga. Be netekciu ar aukos mes nesugebame ivertinti to, ka turime. time value purpose Mitch Albom
ce570a1 There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things. time love closeness deah temporariness value Mohsin Hamid
064738d Time sure kicks the shit out of people... time Dan Simmons
cfdb897 -Dievas riboja musu dienu skaiciu ne be priezasties. -Kokia to priezastis? -Kad kiekviena diena butu brangi. time value purpose Mitch Albom
c65d24c "There is no time. All things exist simultaneously. All events occur at once. This Book is being written, and as it's being written it's already written; it already exists. In fact, that's where you're getting all this information - from the book that already exists. You're merely bringing it into form. This is what is meant by: "Even before you ask, I will have answered." [...] Time is experienced as a movement, a flow, rather than a constant. It is who are moving, not time. Time has no movement. There is only One Moment. [...] time non-linear-life understanding-time power-of-now time-travel time-passing present-moment Neale Donald Walsch
c75f499 (...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around. time opportunities life inspirational desicions will choices Ruth Ozeki
0c5bcd3 Another year passed, much as the first did. time V.C. Andrews
189f5b4 If haunting is anything, perhaps that's what it is; time in the wrong place. time hauntings paranormal supernatural Jeanette Winterson
2a781e4 The hard and unexpected part is the realization not just that my son is not here but that the boy he was is gone forever. I would give anything to have them both back. But of course that cannot be. Life moves on. Kids grow up and move away, and if you don't know this already, believe me, it happens faster than you can imagine. time Bill Bryson
fd8be9b The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid. time future unafraid wolf-by-the-ears house quiet Ann Rinaldi
e681df9 "It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by "buying his own time on the air"-- it being only in the twentieth century that mankind has been able to buy Time as it buys soap and gasoline. This invention was almost equal, in its effect on all American life and thought, to Henry Ford's early conception of selling cars cheap to millions of people, instead of selling a few as luxuries." time henry-ford capitalism radio censorship Sinclair Lewis
286fd9b However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads. time Robert Hellenga
29208b1 "I will have papers. And whether it is one George or the other who rules in time - this land will be ours. And yours," he added softly, raising his eyes to Brianna's. "And your children's after you." I laid my hand on his, where it rested on the box. His skin was warm with work and the heat of the day, and he smelt of clean sweat. The hairs on his forearm shone red and gold in the sun, and I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that so doing will keep it from departing" time Diana Gabaldon
16eaf3d "... Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future." " What's that?" "Hope." live-on look-forward-to-life time Mitch Albom
a477ffe The passage of time was relentless and capricious, and one would lose the battle with it in the end. The only resistance a man could offer was to make the most of time, exploit it without trying to prevent its progress. time time-quote time-passing Henning Mankell
de117c2 "The President called it the "Epitome of the American dream." Daddy called it the "unholy alliance of business and government." But all it really was, was America giving up. Bailing out in order to join the Financial Resource Exchange. A multinational alliance focused on one thing: profit. Fund global medical care to monopolize vaccines. Back unified currency to collect planet-wide interest. And provide the resources needed for a select group of scientists and military personnel to embark on the first trip across the universe in a quest to find more natural resources--more profit. The answer to my parents' dreams. And my worst nightmare. And I know something about nightmares, seeing as how I've been sleeping longer than I've been alive. I hope. What if this is just a part of a long dream dreamt in the short time between when Ed locked the cryo door and Hassan pushed the button to freeze me? What if? It's a strange sort of sleep, this. Never really waking up, but becoming aware of consciousness inside a too-still body. The dreams weave in and out of memories. The only thing keeping the nightmares from engulfing me is the hope that there couldn't possibly be a hundred more years before I wake up. Not a hundred years. Not three hundred. Not three hundred and one. Please, God, no. Sometimes it feels like a thousand years have passed; sometimes it feels as if I've only been sleeping a few moments. I feel most like I'm in that weird state of half-asleep, half-awake I get when I've tried to sleep past noon, when I know I should get up, but my mind starts wandering and I'm sure I can never get back to sleep. Even if I do slip back into a dream for a few moments, I'm mostly just awake with my eyes shut. Yeah. Cryo sleep is like that. Sometimes I think there's something wrong. I shouldn't be so aware. But then I realize I'm only aware for a moment, and then, as I'm realizing it, I slip into another dream. Mostly, I dream of Earth. I think that's because I didn't want to leave it. A field of flowers; smells of dirt and rain. A breeze ... But not really a breeze, a memory of a breeze, a memory made into a dream that tries to drown out my frozen mind. Earth. I hold on to my thoughts of Earth. I don't like the dreamtime. The dreamtime is too much like dying. They are dreams, but I'm too out of control, I lose myself in them, and I've already lost too much to let them take over. I push the dream-memory down. That happened centuries ago, and it's too late for regrets now. Because all my parents ever wanted was to be a part of the first manned interstellar exploratory mission, and all I ever wanted was to be with them. And I guess it doesn't matter that I had a life on Earth, and that I loved Earth, and that by now, my friends have all lived and gotten old and died, and I've just been lying here in frozen sleep." time earth reality dreams amy-martin beth-revis centuries atu-series Beth Revis
36be36a Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying. terminal ill time thoughts left disease Mitch Albom
75f14e2 Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside his shrivelling frame, and as I laid him in his chair, adjusting his head on the pillows, I had the coldest realisation that our time was running out. run-out ill time death realise hold move dying Mitch Albom
a6ea956 "Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our knowledge is measured by year's. We grab a few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. we rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, year's, and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words , if you could change anything would you? Everything is spinning around us, jobs, family, friends, lovers ... you just feels like screaming "STOP!" Love Rosie by Cecelia Ahern" -- time Cecelia Ahern
9fcbed2 If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could. ill time death share remember thought dying memory Mitch Albom
86f2213 After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear. time life urgency precious perspective funeral Mitch Albom
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