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  • Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

  • Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

  • I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

    Regret   Lying   Sadness  
  • Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

    Cells   Soul   Endurance  
  • The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

  • Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

    "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
  • Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

    Time   Mistake   Tragedy  
  • As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.

    "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". Talk at Long Now Foundation, 2004.
  • Now more than ever I am aware that a person's significant birthdays can either mark the passage of time, or they can mark changes they've made in their lives to reach their potential and become the person they were created to be. With each passing year, I want to make good choices that make me a better person, help me become a better leader, and make a positive impact on others.

  • So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

    Love   Men   Order  
  • I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

    Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.
  • The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  • I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren't they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time... Whether it's a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. And each person resolves them differently.

    Thinking   Play   Issues  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

    Years   Dating   Radio  
    "Cave of Forgotten Dreams (3D) - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.

    Art   Moving   Fighting  
  • The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

    Joyce Carol Oates (2006). “Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006”
  • It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

    John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.92, Penguin
  • The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

    Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.79, Random House
  • Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

    Fall   Rocks   Sea  
    John Steinbeck (1997). “Tortilla Flat”, p.107, Penguin
  • The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.

    Curves   Rights   Goal  
    Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”
  • From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

    Book   Fire   Hands  
    Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.220, Vintage Canada
  • Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

    Birthday   Time   Age  
  • Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

    Anger   Culture   Growing  
    Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.

    Memories   Feelings   May  
  • Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

  • 90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

  • Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

    Time   Home   Water  
  • I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

  • America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

    Land   America   Faces  
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