Fleeting Quotes - Page 18

• My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Real

  10 Copy quote

• I worked on "Tree of Life." It was just magical. It was like a little family. A fleeting, beautiful alliance to forge something meaningful. It was amazing, like a transcendental experience to be on the set.

  Sam Pressman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Tree

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 going to be over kind of real quick.

  Robert Plant

  Real, Years, People

  19 Copy quote

• Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

  Donny Osmond

  Strong, Years, Careers

  "Exclusive interview: Donny Osmond reveals back-stage secrets and spats with Marie as new Flamingo show celebrates gala opening tomorrow". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. September 24, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Anchors, Greed

  15 Copy quote

• My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.

  Frank O'Hara

  Eye, Blue, Sky

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

  Tony Romo

  Play, Guy, Stuff

  13 Copy quote

• Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation

  Kiersten White

  Beautiful, Powerful, Animal

  5 Copy quote

• Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

  Tom Clancy

  Strange, Lost, Permanent

  Tom Clancy (2001). “The Bear and the Dragon”, p.13, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

  John Calvin

  Fleeting Life, Looks, Fit

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Sadness, Important, Comes And Goes

  56 Copy quote

• We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, Connections, Definitions

  Source: library.osu.edu

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

  James Joyce

  Love, Life, Lasts

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Media, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Clouds, Language

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.68, Graphic Arts Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

  François Lelord

  Hair, People, Joy

  11 Copy quote

• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Opposites, Childhood

  4 Copy quote

• The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Body, Moments

  16 Copy quote

• All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

  Pope Francis

  Block, Thinking, Self

  57 Copy quote

• Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fate, Play, Matter

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.61, Modern Library

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and perseverance on days when I had none-and even, once every great while, warmed me with that fleeting ray of sunshine known as glory. Running has taught me that I can do anything, just so long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes that notion is metaphorical and sometimes not. In this way, I have been inspired to attempt things I would have never dreamed possible. And it all started with a single step.

  Martin Dugard

  Motivational, Running, Perseverance

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.7, Rodale

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

  Chet Raymo

  Stars, Home, Night

  9 Copy quote

• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Life, Change, Mistake

  "When Do We Become The Final Version of Ourselves?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Rez, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy you peace, love, or happiness.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Sex, Car

  Ernie J. Zelinski (1999). “Don't Hurry, be Happy!: 650 Smart Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Life”, Prima Lifestyles

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

  Joe Johnston

  Lasts, Lifetime, Fame

  18 Copy quote