Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.
Susan SontagTags: time space walter-benjamin one-way-streets
V obyčejném čase, v tom na hodinách, pochopí člověk určité věci. Když nechá čas běžet, pochopí jiné.
Peter HøegTags: inspirational time
A tale begun in other days,
When summer suns were glowing -
A simple chime, that served to time
The rhythm of your rowing -
Whose echoes live in memory yet,
Though envious years would say 'forget.
Beautiful hours move so quickly.
Irene HuntTags: happiness beauty time fleeting
There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one...
Jasper FfordeTags: future present time ties volatile trivialities rigid
Why is it that old furniture always weighs more?" Laurie asks.
"Time makes everything heavier and slower," Millie replies. "Believe me.
Tags: time invisibility
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
Anthony LiccioneTags: pain time sorrow hurt wound healing distress trouble injure depress grieve cut-to-the-quick sadden
Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God’s conception, or nature’s. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."
We effectively became “time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers” with the invention of the clock.
Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?
Galt NiederhofferTags: man women time understand couples tv dinner together making-love spoke spent camped distanced struggled
Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.
Galt NiederhofferTags: time waiting phone precious movie line talking traffic important pace worthwhile accelerated
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