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Quotes About Temporal

All objects exist in a moment of time.
~ Amy Tan
We who play the game of life so desperately for temporal stakes might be playing at love with God for higher stakes—our selves, and his. We play against one another for possessions, who might be playing with the King who stakes his throne and what is his against our lives and all we are: a game in which the more is lost, the more is won.
~ Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
For the cinema image is essentially the observation of a phenomenon passing through time.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Is this night a failure because it will end in an hour?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
It is unworthy of a man of spirit to be sollicitous to keep himself within the boundaries of human laws, on no other motive than to avoid the temporal inconveniencies attending the breach of them. The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
~ Samuel Richardson
Y no digo que no sean felices. Sólo que hay que tener mucho cuidado con lafelicidad. Porque tiene tendencia a ser temporal.
~ Sarah Dunn
El tiempo es demasiado ancho, no se deja llenar. Todo lo que uno sumerge en él se ablanda y se estira.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
It would be more accurate to say that human fatherhood is metaphorical, a temporal sign of an eternal reality. God's fatherhood is true fatherhood in the truest sense.
~ Scott Hahn
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
~ John Ashcroft
The instant is not in time -- time is in the instant.
~ JOHN BARBOUR
Life really is very brief.
~ Matthew Modine
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
~ Louise Imogen Guiney
Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice.
~ Thomas Harris
Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.
~ Aeriel Miranda
Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy
~ Charles Spurgeon
Striking from the CalendarUnborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
In eternity, there is no 'time' for anything to begin or end, therefore, past, present, future represent a linear progression that goes nowhere.
~ Edward Weiss
You can stop the clock, but not the time.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
While life is being postponed, it rushes past.
~ Elaine Fantham
Le parole vanno raramente al posto giusto, e solo per un tempo brevissimo. Per il resto servono a parlare a vanvera, come adesso. O a fingere che sia tutto sotto controllo.
~ Elena Ferrante
Music is a temporal art. Its patterns exist in time and require duration for their development and completion. Although painting and architecture and sculpture make statements about relationships between space, objects, and colours, these relationships are static.
~ Anthony Storr
We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All the same, all their efforts tend to, dissociate us, and to reduce us to the state of amorphous dust. They can bear no organised society other than what they call a lay society no government other than their government and no social finality other than their temporal aspirations.
~ Antonin Sertillanges