Top 14 Timekeeping Quotes
#1. Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
Colin Myles
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. And no offense, but it does smell like a squirrel crawled up your ass and died there.
James S.A. Corey
#8. 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
#9. 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
#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
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