Fleeting Quotes - Page 14

• If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

  Jay McInerney

  Luck, Generations, Occupation

  "The butterfly crusher" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2007.

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• As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lying, Guilt, Faces

  Diane Ackerman (2017). “The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

  Nellie McKay

  Love Is, Emotion, Small Parts

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2004.

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• For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

  Jason Silva

  Single Mom, Imagination, Anxiety

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• To be sure, not all moments are equally fleeting. Some moments last longer than others. And certain events do reoccur more than once and even recur repeatedly. Sometimes you do get more than one chance. Sometimes you don't. It helps to know how long a window of opportunity you have and if you'll get another chance.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Opportunity, Long, Lasts

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• I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.

  Jack White

  Boys, Thinking, Pie

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

  Jennifer Niven

  Mind, Body, Life Is

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• There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  War, Joy, Moments

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.402, Macmillan

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• When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Blessed

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• When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

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• Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

  Ruth Ozeki

  Life, Inspiring, Waste

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• It's been a wild ride. I hope people can appreciate how special it is to see the people that ran well today; how special and sometimes fleeting greatness can be even from yourself. I gave it everything I had and for a short period of time I did very very well and I'm very proud of that and I'm leaving it at that. I did the best I could.

  Alan Webb

  Athlete, Greatness, People

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• A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

  Eudora Welty

  Character, Insightful, Trying

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• By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Happiness, Mean, Healthy

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Then came a moment of renaissance,
  I looked up - you again are there,
  A fleeting vision, the quintessence
  Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Beautiful, Famous Love, Vision

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• 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Wisdom, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.271

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Art, Science

  Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”

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• Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by a racial constant. We can often explain them-in terms of contact with other peoples, of individual genius, of geography-but not by racial differences.

  Robert Lowie

  Change, Science, Race

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• Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

  Horace

  Latin, Wrinkles, Years

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• Chime out, thou little song of Spring,
  Float in the blue skies ravishing.
  Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring
  That's sweet, albeit fleeting.
  Float on the Spring-winds e'en to my home:
  And when thou to a rose shalt come
  That hath begun to show her bloom,
  Say, I send her greeting!

  Sidney Lanier

  Song, Sweet, Spring

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

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• If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Good Food, Perfume, Filled

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

  Jaleel White

  Being Yourself, Years, Today

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• Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

  Umberto Eco

  Fall, Flower, Autumn

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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