Quotes of: Ny-times Keyword

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

I’ve lived in this world a long time, and you can’t change what you like, even if you’d want to.

Imogene in New Orleans

No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own terms.

It Is Time and Other Stories

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, full of unknowns, asking questions but raising possibilities.

Io Deceneus - Journal of a Time Traveler

I want to spend less time talking about myself, and more time listening to what other people have to say about me.

I Want

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.

I Want

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

Journey to Ixtlan

Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere. (Year 2036 John Titor)

John Titor A Time Traveler's Tale

She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.

Kicky-Wicky

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Ragtime

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

Running Hot

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

Rapture

So each time a person decides to wait for 'time to change things', he or she is actually waiting for other people to change his or her fortunes.

The Reason

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

The Rainy Season

Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World