Fleeting Quotes - Page 6

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

You have no idea How much you do for mankind When you love God unconditionally Even for a fleeting moment.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow.

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.