Time

"Time passes…..and a billion lives are affected in ways we’ll never know."

"A newly formed planet appeared on the large screen. its surface was till red-hot, like a piece of charcoal fresh out of the furnace. Time passed at the rate of geological eras, and the planet gradually cooled. The color and patterns on the surface slowly shifted in a hypnotic manner. A few minutes later, an orange planet appeared on the screen, indicating the end of the simulation run."The computations were done at the coarsest level; to do it with more precision would require over a month." Green Glasses moved the mouse and zoomed in on the surface of the planet. The view swept over a broad desert, over a cluster of strangely shaped, towering mountain peaks, over a circular depression like an impact crater."What are we looking at" Yang Dong asked."Earth. Without life, this is what the surface of the planet would look like now."But . . . where are the oceans"There are no oceans. No rivers either. The entire surface is dry."Your'e saying that without life, liquid water would not exist on Earth"The reality would probably be even more shocking. Remember, this is only a coarse simulation, but at least you can see how much of an impact life had in the present state of the Earth."But--"Do you think life is nothing but a fragile, thin, soft shell clinging to the surface of this planet"Isn't it"Only if you neglect the power of time. If a colony of ants continue to move clods the size of grains of rice, they could remove all of Mount Tai in a billion years. As long as you give it enough time, life is stronger than metal and stone, more powerful than typhoons and volcanoes."

"Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It’s truth in an otherwise dishonest world."

"You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.’ Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair.‘Well, that’s love isn’t it?’ Davina took his restless hand. ‘Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring."

"Losing your job gives you the material from which life is made"

"Time is the essence of life"

"All money comes from the worth of time"

"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money"

"Time is like a raging bull … if you dare to hold it from the horns, you can ride it forever, but if in case you do not dare, you will be trailing behind holding from its tail."

"Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor"

"Those who waste time eventually become wasted"

"One thing you cannot avoid ever in life, and that is time."

"Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death, it still seemed to be something that happened only to other people, and I stood in an unending river of time that would go on making the same changes and the same returns forever. And now, nearing the end, I see that my life is almost entirely memory and very little time."

"In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you."

"The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age."

"Look yourself... staring into the monitor... and your time is going to be lost like that... First seconds Second minutes Third hours"

"Great news is that time is constant and anyone can catch it anytime, but the worst news is that time is transient, and it will not be available to you the next time."

"Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses."

"But, over time, grief fades. And so did my lust for vengeance."

"Time takes it all in the end..."