Fleeting Quotes - Page 5

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

... we each have our fleeting hour.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.

I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman." The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect." There's no such thing.