Evanescent Quotes

43 quotes by 42 authors

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the… — Russell Kirk
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the… — Aldo Leopold
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely… — George Berkeley
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. — Edwin Forrest
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs… — Danielle Trussoni
Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. — John Constable
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and… — Theodore Roosevelt
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as… — Jacques Lacan
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of… — Camille Paglia
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon… — Virginia Woolf
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a… — Alain de Botton
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and… — Thomas Hardy
How evanescent those loves and friendships seem at this distance in timeâ€¦We move on, make new attachments. We grow old. But sometimes, we hanker for… — Ruskin Bond
The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This… — Farid al-Din Attar

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