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Quotes About Temporal

I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?
~ Joseph Heller
Time is the element in which we exist... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
17The world is passing away, and with it its lusts [the shameful pursuits and ungodly longings]; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes lives forever.
~ Joyce Meyer
The courage of his imagination is the temporal and spiritual measurement of every artist.
~ Wallace Fowlie
Well, ultimately nothing lasts. Everything is temporal, but some things last longer than others.
~ WALTER BARGEN
if someone will take such good care of your physical bodies in the Temporal." "Don't you worry about that
~ Wayne Thomas Batson
For most of us, space is the concrete thing that time is like.3 Studies reveal that people all over the world imagine time as though it were a spatial dimension, which is why we say that the past is behind us and the future is in front of us, that we are moving toward our senescence and looking back on our infancy, and that days pass
~ Daniel Todd Gilbert
that spiritual goods are given to the just as the better [reward], while temporal goods may go to the unjust, but these are of course quite worthless
~ David B. Burrell
The object of this establishment is seducing; the motive to it is laudable. But is it not safer to adhere to a right principle, and trust to its consequences, than confide in the reasoning however specious in favor of a wrong one? Look thro' the armies and navies of the world, and say whether in the appointment of their ministers of religion, the spiritual interest of the flocks or the temporal interest of the Shepherd be most in view?
~ James Madison
Occurring before a world, theatrically, a finite game occurs within time. Because it has its boundaries, its beginning and end, within the absolute temporal limits established by a world, time for a finite player runs out; it is used up. It is a diminishing quantity.
~ James P. Carse
The passage of time is always relative to that which does not pass, to the timeless.
~ James P. Carse
That life—whatever else it is—is short.
~ Donna Tartt
Tempus fugit. See fugitib nii, et vähe pole.
~ Doris Lessing
the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.
~ Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so.
~ Douglas Adams
the editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic Copyright laws. It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backward in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws.
~ Douglas Adams
The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
~ Douglas Adams
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.
~ Douglas Adams
Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?
~ Douglas Coupland
We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.
~ Douglas Coupland
Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long
~ Douglas Coupland
I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.
~ Rae Armantrout
The days passed. Sunday turned to Monday turned to Tuesday turned to Wednesday.
~ Ramez Naam
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
~ Randy Alcorn