Transient Quotes

168 quotes by 140 authors

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. — Robert South
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes — Christoph Martin Wieland
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient. — Os Guinness
Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths… — Sebastian Smee
We are â€¦ the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things… — Ralph Caplan
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted. — Joaquin Sorolla
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient. — Plato
I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm… — Marina and the Diamonds
Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? — Hermann Hesse
In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value… — Wendell Berry
Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now. — Jessica Lange
I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a… — Uma Thurman
Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance… — Gary Zukav
Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born. — Walter Russell
At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of… — Andy Goldsworthy
Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is… — Duane Michals
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant… — B.K.S. Iyengar
I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas… — Kevin B. Rollins
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… — Kenny Smith

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