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• While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Design, Forever

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• More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Block, Views, Welcome

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• What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

  Denis Diderot

  Order, Perfection, World

  "Book by Denis Diderot". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.

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• I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Night, Men

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

  Bill Brandt

  Expression, Trying, Portraits

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay?
  A breath one single gasp must puff away!
  A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade!
  A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade!
  A stream that silently but swiftly glides
  To meet eternity's immeasured tides!
  A being, lost alike by pain or joy?
  A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy!
  Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone,
  Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  Alexander Brome

  Life, Art, Pain

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• André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.

  Manohla Dargis

  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand. ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death. ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.

  Rachel

  Queens, Writing, Dust

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• Time is always fleeting and the lunar phases represent that visually for me. What people take away from that and how they apply it within their own lives, that's entirely up to them.

  Jacob Bannon

  People, Phases

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Space, Sight

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• Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Dies

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.

  Scott Sanders

  Heart, Trying, Radiance

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• Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

  Debbie Allen

  Honey, Fame

  "Legendary Dance Icon Debbie Allen and Vivian Nixon, Her Daughter". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

  Eric Benet

  Trends, Fads

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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• It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman." The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect." There's no such thing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Perfect, Feels, Ideals

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

  Indira Gandhi

  Views, Point Of View

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

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• It is something more fleeting than what you normally see. People might somehow take it into their own dreams, into their own life, in a way. I hear it more recently; people are telling me that when they leave the theater and see one of my films, they are not alone anymore. It's probably more that kind of feeling. If I managed to do a film like that, everything is fine.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Firsts, Process

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Grandchildren, Long

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?

  Charles Darwin

  Character, Men, Effort

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Charles Darwin

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• Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.

  Alicia Keys

  Feelings, Together, Alive

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is that I was always keenly aware that life was fleeting, and that you'd better live while you have the chance. As I say in the book, since I was 19 years old I felt like I was living for two, and when I out-lived my mother, when I got into my forties, it felt like a miracle to me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.

  Eva Marcille

  Dream, Creating, Networking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• But me, not destined such delights to share,
  My prime of life in wandering spent and care;
  Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue
  Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view
  That, like the circle bounding earth and skies,
  Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies;
  My fortune leads to traverse reams alone,
  And find no spot of all the world my own.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views, Sky, Circles

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.2

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