All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Rest your mind for a moment in the peace of knowing you were created and you do exist.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore,… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
YOLO isn't about doing anything just for momentary fun, its about doin something that might leave a mark, such as them, Glorious. — Daniyal Butt Copy Share Image
Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own… — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Copy Share Image
Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory. The resentment and ill will you stir… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up -… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book:… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have… — T.I Copy Share Image
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“This momentary bridge. The wonder of a shared memory, returned. Of a place once theirs and a life that had already been… — Paul Yoon Copy Share Image
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play. — Mooji Copy Share Image
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
