Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I do not like the idea of happyness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I've tried it long ago, with hashish and peyote. Fascinating, yes, but no good, no. This, as we find in alcohol, is… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to… — James Garner Copy Share Image
The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's just never the same. At least for me.It's probably because it's just who I am, I never know what that [truth]… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the… — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a… — Roy MacGregor Copy Share Image
There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air,… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life's reward.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
![“It's just never the same. At least for me.It's probably because it's just who I am, I never know what that [truth] is. It's so momentary to go, "Oh, yeah, that's true." That's a fundamental starting point for me - to figure out what's true from moment to moment to moment.” quote by Paul Beatty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/873/paul-beatty-6684_figures_it-s-just-never-the-same-at-least-for-me_1522052.jpg)
