Transitory Quotes

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The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory. — Alfred North Whitehead
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. — F. Sionil Jose
Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving… — Gordon W. Allport
Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their… — Elaine Pagels
Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life,… — Said Nursi
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and… — Herman Hesse
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the… — Delta Burke
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. — Charles Baudelaire
Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at… — William Wordsworth
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory… — Albert Einstein
When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be… — C.S. Lewis
Words are transitory. The more in use, the less in reach — Alexander Fennis
Life is transitory it doesn't last forever, but with the time that is given you can find some sort of purpose. — Jeremy Limn
To live is to be alive. Not living is not to be alive. The life we live is a temporal transitory moment. Each day is… — Jeremy Limn
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them — Charles Dickens
Brandon McCaw says the archaeology of the stone monument is complex because overa period of more a 1,000 years of prehistory a huge amount of… — Brandon McCaw
It was a great thing to grow up around the acting world and also question the transitory nature of it. — Alice Eve
Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into the… — Robert Boyle
Crush. It's funny how the same word for the feeling of disappointment can be used for the feeling of attraction. The Oxford English Dictionary states… — Ramandeep Singh

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