Quotes by Time 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 massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along. Alan Lightman swings time two In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely. Alan Lightman circles kissing time 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 predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. Alan Lightman movement time people Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. Alan Lightman structure time past this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana. Alan Watts moments mind time We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless. Alan Watts time past thinking It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. Albert Camus time art needs Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus time beauty love If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. Albert Camus time men life I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God. Albert Camus want time littles To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. Albert Camus law-enforcement police time Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience. Albert Camus time happiness long Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style. Albert Camus style liberty time In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it. Albert Camus knowing time people We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey. Albert E Cliffe truth faith time When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity. Albert Einstein nice girl time I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein clever time happiness Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. Albert Einstein time science thinking Creativity is the residue of time wasted. Albert Einstein wasted-time creativity time The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Albert Einstein white-collar time inspirational «1234567891011»