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Quotes About Time

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
Music structures time. By imposing order, music ensures that the emotions aroused by a particular event peak at the same moment.
~ Anthony Storr
It occured to me that we will never be young again.
~ Anthony Swofford
It had at this time become my custom… to write with my watch before me, and to require from myself 250 words every quarter of an hour. I have found that the 250 words have been forthcoming as regularly as my watch went.
~ Anthony Trollope
On ne parle pas assez quand il en est temps et les âmes se boucanent côte à côte.
~ Antoine Blondin
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~ Antoine Rivarol
il y a ce qui subsiste d'une usine dont le cœur atomique est en feu depuis trois cent soixante-deux ans.
~ Antoine Volodine
He wondered what could have possibly happened with his predecessor to make her cross the street in tears. Had it been him they would have been tears of boredom. He remembered what his mother had told him when he was a child: "Waiting is doing what you don't want until you get to do what you want." He would bide his time in the new sinecure, waiting for Francis.
~ Antoine Wilson
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like a cake. Time is substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
~ Antoinette Bosco
Un grand voyage, c'est toute une vie vécue en quelques mois ou en quelques années.
~ Anton Krotov
Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
el que se ocupa demasiado en hacer el bien, no tiene tiempo de ser bueno».
~ Antoni Bolinches
When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust
~ Antonia Michaelis
Tal vez, pensó, es mejor tomar estos momentos cuando los consigues, puede que no haya demasiados en la vida.
~ Antonia Michaelis
Cuando le digo al momento fugaz ... permanece por un tiempo, eres tan precioso.
~ Antonia Michaelis
El tiempo no podía cambiar el pasado, pero traía paz.
~ Antonia Michaelis
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
~ Antonin Artaud
Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
~ Antonin Artaud
A statute limits the time for appeal to 60 days after judgment has been entered: The purpose is to close off appeal, and terminate the litigation, after 60 days. (The purposivist might find it to be closing off appeal after a reasonable time, which is specified as 60 days in normal circumstances—but special cir-cumstances may provide an exception.)
~ Antonin Scalia