Fleeting Quotes - Page 2

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.

The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.