The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? — Ada Cambridge Copy Share Image
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting. — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
“...most art mistakes itself for the universal when it is momentary” — Sarah Emily Miano Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared… — Edward Whymper Copy Share Image
In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being,… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your… — David Platt Copy Share Image
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
When we give of ourselves, our time, and our money, we're also giving up control. As a control freak myself, I know… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with… — Bernhard von Cotta Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The real difference between God and human beings is that God cannot stand continence. No sooner has he created a season of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Love is like the flame of a candle; both can be extinguished in the quickness of one breath. — Superman Copy Share Image
“Here's to love at first sight, and here's to getting over it the moment you blink.” — Ahmed Mostafa 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
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
