Transient Quotes

168 quotes by 142 authors

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's… — Robert Plant
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised… — Vladimir Putin
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. — Baruch Spinoza
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. — Gene Tierney
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation. — Viswanathan Anand
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as… — Julian Baggini
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear… — George Bernard Shaw
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater… — H.G. Wells
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste… — Orson Scott Card
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;… — Truman Capote
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual… — Orson Scott Card
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking… — Thomas Sowell
Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. — Edith Wharton
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their… — Alexander Hamilton
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from… — Neil Gaiman
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest… — Dean Koontz
And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Whatâ€™s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome… — Steve Aylett
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little… — Meg Rosoff

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