Timekeeping Quotes

#1. The world is so unpredictable.
Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
We want to feel we are in control of our own existence.
In some ways we are , in some ways we are not ...

Paul Auster

#2. Make the big time where you are!

Frosty Westering

#3. And no offense, but it does smell like a squirrel crawled up your ass and died there.

James S.A. Corey

#4. Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.

Colin Myles

#5. Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.

Melissa De La Cruz

#6. I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire

R.E. Bradshaw

#7. In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.

Weina Dai Randel

#8. Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

Jay Griffiths

#9. The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

Lewis Mumford

#10. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

Mother Teresa

#11. I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

Ryan Reynolds

#12. You look amazing."
"Thank you. You look pretty good." Understatement.
"Oh this old thing? Shucks," he said.
"Dork."
"Goddess.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#13. If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.

David L. Conroy

#14. Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.

Vernor Vinge