Transient Quotes

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

— Frederick Lenz

Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.

— Ralph Lauren

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

— Peace Pilgrim

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There…

— H. L. Mencken

All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than…

— Bill Parcells

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president,…

— Jimmy Carter

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as…

— Clifton Fadiman

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,…

— Frederick Lenz

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

— Anonymous

Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two…

— Randeep Hooda

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient…

— Abraham Verghese

In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a…

— James Madison

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

— Frederick Lenz

I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see…

— Galileo Galilei

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

— Edward Hopper

And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and…

— Robert Browning

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is…

— Oskar Kokoschka

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

— Duane Michals

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

— Frederick Lenz

I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how…

— Marina and the Diamonds

Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which…

— Abraham Maslow

Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact…

— Grenville Kleiser

The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And…

— William Cowper

Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply…

— Giorgio Armani

I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

— Ian K. Smith