Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

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.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

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

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

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

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

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

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

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

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.