Browsing Quotes With Tag: time (47)
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“Fear? What has a man to do with fear?
Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown.
Best live as best we may, from day to day.” JocastaSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…Time will teach
The truth of this; for time alone can prove
The honest man; one day proclaims the sinner.” CreonSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Where am I?” said Billy Pilgrim.
“Trapped in another blob of amber, Mr. Pilgrim. We are where we have to be just now – three hundred million miles from Earth, bound for a time warp which will get us to Tralfamadore in hours rather than centuries.”
“How – how did I get here?”
“It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this:
God grant me
The serenity to accept
The things I cannot change,
Courage
To change the things I can,
And wisdom always
To tell the
Difference.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes.’
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The two little girls and I crossed the Delaware River where George Washington had crossed it, the next morning. We went to the New York World’s Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors.
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The years bring many blessings as they come to meet us; receding,
they take many away.Speaker: HoracePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!