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• Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.

  John Pfahl

  Dream, Drawing, Filled In

  John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

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• O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

  John Milton

  Joy, Paradise, Woe

  1665 Adam's lament. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.741-2.

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• Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.

  Frank Iero

  Kids, Realizing, Moments

  Interview with Molly Louise Hudelson, circlesandsoundwaves.com. September 6, 2014.

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• Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
  Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
  Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
  Was earthly fame.

  Robert Pollok

  Shade, Phantoms, Fame

  Robert Pollok (1829). “The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books”, p.81

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• For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

  Juvenal

  Drinking, Age, Calling

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• I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

  Henry James

  Taste, Cups, Savannah

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.707, Library of America

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• ... we each have our fleeting hour.

  Miles Franklin

  Hours

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• I also realise power is fleeting, it doesn't last forever in this career, so I want to make the most of it. I want to make the kinds of pictures that interest me, it's as simple as that. I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

  Tom Cruise

  Mean, Simple, Careers

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• Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Past, Ideas, Voice

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• It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, People, Trying

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Mirrors, Justice

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• What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

  John Green

  Art, Struggle, Mean

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positive Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Anxiety

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• Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

  Michael Shermer

  Heart, Science, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Stupidity, Riches, Fame

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• The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Friendly

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• The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

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• Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Crush, Dust, Way

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.11, Penguin

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• Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?

  Dani Shapiro

  Book, Next, Deals

  "Dani Shapiro: Stop Asking for Permission". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. September 27, 2013.

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• The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

  Sallust

  Wealth, Virtue, Glory

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• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Memories, Benefits

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

  Johnny Cash

  Clothes, Furniture, Fame

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• The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

  Lucian

  Passing Away, World, Tranquility

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• Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "Alden Ehrenreich Talks TWILIGHT Comparisons, Landing the Part, and Working with Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson on the Set of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 8, 2012.

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