Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Mansions once Knew their own masters, and laborious hinds, That had surviv'd the father, serv'd the son. Now the legitimate and rightful… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She put her arm around my shoulder and squeezed me. She whispered, "It's not the worst thing, Ruthie, drifting. You'll see. You'll… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Nobody tells you when success comes around; in its transient way, you're just working and exhausted all the time. Sometimes I think… — James Corden Copy Share Image
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation. — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have,… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
