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Quotes About Temporal

Simple changes in tone and volume can cause temporal illusions that lead people to believe that more time has passed than really has.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
Calvin sets the absolute sovereignty of God and the infallibility of the Bible over against the pretended sovereignty and infallibility of the pope. Fearing God, he was fearless of man. The sense of God's sovereignty fortified his followers against the tyranny of temporal sovereigns, and made them champions and promoters of civil and political liberty in France, Holland, England, and Scotland.
~ Philip Schaff
Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.
~ Jon Watts
If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.
~ Kip Thorne
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
~ Douglas Coupland
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
~ Kurt Andersen
Anything that can be proven cannot last.
~ Jonah Blank
If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
un acto es menos que todas las horas de un hombre.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Money is abstract, I said over and over, money is future time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Time is the substance of which I am
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal terms cuts off.... the experience of eternity right here and now, in all things, whether thought of as good or as evil, is the function of life.
~ Joseph Campbell
It is the sword distinguishing that which is enduring from that which is merely passing. The tick-tick-tick of time shuts out eternity. We live in this field of time. But what is reflected in this field is an eternal principle made manifest.
~ Joseph Campbell
Even with millions you can't control time.
~ Adele Parks
As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second
~ Piet Hein
The happier time, the quicker it passes
~ Pliny the Younger
Seu antagonismo tinha a medida exata da sua antiga harmonia, mas enquanto a harmonia havia sido atemporal, sem peso, o antagonismo ocupava espaço e tempo.
~ Rachel Cusk
Ein Mal jedes, nur ein Mal. Ein Mal und nicht mehr. Und wir auch ein Mal. Nie wieder. Aber dieses ein Mal gewesen zu sein, wenn auch nur ein Mal: irdisch gewesen zu sein, scheint nicht widerrufbar.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. It
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who I am is awareness and deep love, a presence beyond experience within a temporal, changing form. Who I am is a soul, a soul without a name, address, social security number, or biography, who isn't born and doesn't die. I am.
~ Ram Dass
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV)
~ Randy Alcorn
Whatever has the nature to arise will also pass away.
~ Joseph Goldstein