34 Quotes by Jim Holt

The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne toward our deaths at the stark rate of one second per second. As the past slips out of existence behind us, the future, once unknown and mysterious, assumes its banal reality before us as it yields to the ever-hurrying now.

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it's all better. - John Leslie

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.

The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all facilities construction.

We've got to stop government growth (and get it) under control before too long, or it's going to turn upside down.

Those are the same sandbags our garbage collectors will probably be picking up this week.

The sun came up Sunday and the rakes started flying. I drove all over town and that's all I saw was people cleaning up their yards.

They've beaten a bunch of those guys in the field and they both are straight-forward kind of players,