Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
Graham Greene
Related It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be somethin... LAURA MARLING It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult ... THOMAS PAINE Every believer should be an apostle since each believer is sent by the Lord Jesus to go and bear fru... HENRY HON It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured... CLIFFORD D. SIMAK Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," As... CATE TIERNAN If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity
is not an everlasting flux of time,... DR. JOHN DONNE Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who... IRENE FANTOPOULOS The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it ... PLUTARCH The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not sp... PLUTARCH World at any point of time is at the point of no return, so there is no point to try to make it go U... ANUJ SOMANY Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again... JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob... JOHN GREEN Between the point of decision and the point of completion, each creditor can reduce the debt servici... PEDRO ALBA He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND We think of infinity as a really big number, but it’s not. It’s endlessness. Endlessness is a re... JOHN GREEN But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point o... DANA REINHARDT Time and space doesn't dictate how we feel about others, but it does put an exclamation point on a l... BJ MORIN My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as... VLADIMIR NABOKOV There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. ROBERT GOTTLIEB Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even try... JONATHAN DAVIS I have heard it said that one loses a woman by loving her too much, that an affectation of coldness,... HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Sometimes life may take you down an unexpected path, but keep an open mind, for that may be the exac... ALICIA EMAMDEE Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the ... C.S. LEWIS It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however... ALAIN DE BOTTON When I lose control, I lose my cool and I pass the point of no RTN. NATALYA VOROBYOVA The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's move... LOIS GREENFIELD All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication. DEYTH BANGER From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient... DOUGLAS KENNEDY I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time. ANDREA RISEBOROUGH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of tim... BOB NEWHART He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied. GRAHAM GREENE Understanding is not absolutely final. What's now right could be wrong later. TOBA BETA The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life. ANUJ SOMANY It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must... ANTONIN ARTAUD I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu... MICHAEL KORDA In point of fact, one of the carriers that will be operating in the Pacific is an Atlantic Fleet car... ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke. HERMANN HESSE When we are in human consciousness, we identify with the body – mind. We believe we are one and th... HOWARD MANN You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the worl... OSHO He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but th... DEREK BAILEY destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to e... C.S. LEWIS The entire content of the 'Queries' is usually taken to express Newton's personal point of view, but... BILL NEWMAN The entire content of the 'Queries' is usually taken to express Newton's personal point of view, but... BILL NEWMAN It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, n... ALETHEA KONTIS I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push... ANDERSON COOPER Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time. TOBA BETA It might. But that is an optimistic point of view. Optimism is not a good thing to base your financi... ERIC STUCKEY You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas ... HERMANN HESSE Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at ... IVY COMPTON-BURNETT A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it... MILAN KUNDERA But there's no point in saving something that we're not going to have a part of. SCOTT PETERSON In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas. . . a cosmonaut of inner spa... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i... SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i... SøREN KIERKEGAARD But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef... LEO TOLSTOY Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked. PETER GUBER I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. So... JULIA ROBERTS To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and po... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Up until this point there has always been an exit that allowed the talks to go on, the prospect of a... FRANK LARKIN Eternity is best conceived if thought of as a joining of human and divine consciousness. Eternity an... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of ... MICHAEL ROSTOVTZEFF A good wife is an extension of a husband's emotion. She would make it sure that her shopping is not ... JECON B. NADELA Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, f... SARA ELLA Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its... JOYCE RACHELLE For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. C.S. LEWIS It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount o... DOUGLAS ADAMS I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view. DAVID CASSIDY To see an actual decrease in the average rate during a time of consistent hikes for consumers is sur... JUSTIN MCHENRY He couldn’t just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subt... SARAH MAYBERRY At this point, she is an untapped talent because there is no track record. No qualifying school, no ... DOTTIE PEPPER Time is a FOCUSED THOUGHT. The more you focus the more you come closer to time, even to the point yo... EPHDAN I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Someti... JULIA ROBERTS It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured.... ISAAC NEWTON Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and... GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and... GERALD JAMPOLSKY We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time. DAVID HEYMANN I was thinking when I made that 3-pointer that they'd probably try to answer it. But I had a lot of ... CHRISTOPHER JONES From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a ... CHARLES RANGEL Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my... ROALD DAHL And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to. JOHN GREEN but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer. JOHN GREEN El pasado es una historia lógica. Es el sentido de lo que sucedió. Pero como el futuro todavía no... JOHN GREEN Kau bisa melihat masa depan kalau kau punya pemahaman dasar tentang bagaimana orang akan bersikap JOHN GREEN Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata JOHN GREEN And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc... JOHN GREEN Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But ... JOHN GREEN Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta... JOHN GREEN En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in time?” TERRY BISSON There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are not to that point right now (of opening up an embassy) but as you have a changed relationship... SEAN MCCORMACK In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can... HARUKI MURAKAMI They believe that for the guys who didn't get it, no book is going to make any difference, ... Billy... MICHAEL LEWIS
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BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t... BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab... BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na... BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ... BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo... BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s... BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans... BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor... BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa... BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo... BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ... SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane. ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin... NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib... ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ... ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good. ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that. ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott... ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con... ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens. ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do. ALAN GREENE