Ann Brashares Quotes

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

Things always happen in series.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

First things first, second things never.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Everything has a cycle and a season.

Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.