The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us
This line from one of O’Neill’s characters was adopted for a History Masthead Slogan. See XXX.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.
I am really interested in the way we relate to time. In particular, the way readers and writers talk to each other. Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.
All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
The importance of money essentially flows from its being a link between the present and the future.
A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.
In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.