Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
A lot of times in this business, it's so transitory - it's just 10 weeks here or there on a movie and… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds… — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image