Antedate Quotes

#1. At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#2. To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Philip Massinger

#3. Music the fiercest grief can charm,
And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
And make despair and madness please;
Our joys below it can improve,
And antedate the bliss above.

Alexander Pope

#4. By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

Jeremy Collier

#5. Size alone is not a key to success, as we have seen recently.

Norbert Reithofer

#6. Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alejandro Amenabar

#7. This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Shana Alexander

#8. In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

#9. A star appeared ... and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.

William Golding

#10. Things don't get better just because you want them to.

Susane Colasanti

#11. One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

Joseph Campbell

#12. The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#13. I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

Flannery O'Connor