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Time Quotes by Alan Lightman
- Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no…
- In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a…
- There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the…
- I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science…
- For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement…
- I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I…
- I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to…
- I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to…
- If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics,…
- Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life…
- Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
- Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
- Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
- Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world…
- A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
- Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live…
- In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal,…
- Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
More Time Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani