Momentary Quotes

183 quotes by 160 authors

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. — Marcus Aurelius
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious… — Felix Adler
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. — Lord Chesterfield
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than… — Alexander Hamilton
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness… — Alexander Hamilton
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on… — Carl Sagan
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. — Mahatma Gandhi
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. — Horace
The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return… — Pat Conroy
The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving. — William Arthur Ward
Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he… — Rita Rudner
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being… — Warren G. Bennis
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
Defeat is always momentary. — Peter Jackson
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade. — Barnabe Barnes

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