A Quote by X. J. Kennedy

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

X. J. Kennedy

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X. J. Kennedy
American - Author
Born: August 21, 1929

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.

Dharma Kumar

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

John Archibald Wheeler

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

John Archibald Wheeler

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

Hillary Clinton

I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

Steve Jobs

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

Dave Cooper

Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Mae West

I feel as though maybe our concept of time and space is very limited. Maybe everything is all happening at once, if you know what I mean.

Jack Reynor

What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

Joseph Campbell

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Certainly we're going to do whatever that loaded word retaliate is, we're going to do everything we can in order to prevent all of this stuff [Hackers attacks] from happening ever again.

Reince Priebus

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Jeannette Walls

Do books about the Holocaust make us think, "Oh well, there was nothing we could've done to prevent that or prevent it from happening again"? Of course not. It makes us angry and determined to stop such atrocities.

James Dashner

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

Jim Butcher

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement inside South Vietnam. And in fact it went to war precisely to prevent that. It finally bombed the North in 1965 with the purpose of trying to get the North to use its influence to call off the insurgency in the South.

Noam Chomsky

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