Fleeting Quotes

347 Fleeting quotes by 294 unique authors

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or… — Alden Ehrenreich
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me… — Helen Keller
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography… — Martine Franck
I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime. — Joseph E. Johnston
Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy… — Ernie J Zelinski
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's… — Frederick Lenz
Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes… — Luci Swindoll
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated… — Charles Darwin
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process. — Pema Chodron
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in… — Sathya Sai Baba
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think theyâ€™re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary… — Daniel Gilbert
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the… — Yann Martel
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore. — William Osler
The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting. — Samuel Johnson
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! — William Wordsworth
Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy;… — Hunter S. Thompson
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have… — Marvin Minsky

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