Perishable Quotes
65 quotes by 59 authors
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Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say.…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
— Vanessa Redgrave
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The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."
— John Loengard
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As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment,…
— Margaret Bourke-White
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Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the…
— Marquis de Sade
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual…
— Susan Sontag
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
— Albert Bandura
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining…
— Joan Didion
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I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Time is a perishable commodity.
— David Hume
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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not…
— Peter Drucker
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I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and…
— Jeremy Lin
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All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our…
— Josephus
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I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.
— Paulette Goddard
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I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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