Transient Quotes

168 quotes by 142 authors

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have… — Francoise Sagan
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All… — Shashi Tharoor
The word book acted as a transient stimulus — Charlotte Bronte
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to… — Agnes Repplier
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten. — Thomas Hardy
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn… — Michael Connelly
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your… — Cornelia Funke
Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain. — Nora Roberts
[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient… — Frederick Douglass
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient.… — Deepak Chopra
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a… — Stephen Jay Gould
I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while. — Randeep Hooda
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships. — Natasha Lyonne
The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! — Walter Savage Landor
Islam teaches that God is one and only reality. Not just that there is only one God but that nothing else really exists! We have… — Anas
This life is short, the varities of the world are transient but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than… — Sreenadh
Happiness and misery are both transient. — Paritoshik Sharma
Change is a transient reality, once we're willing to make the effort. Stay committed, even at the verge of peril to not give in. We… — Jeremy Limn

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