“ Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal. ”
- Eliphas Levi- Copy
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“ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ When thou are above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary a man's life is. ”
- Marcus Arelius Antoninus- Copy
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“ My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ”
- Roman Polanski- Copy
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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. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
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“ Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment. ”
- Karen Crockett- Copy
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“ When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving. ”
- William A. Ward- Copy
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“ Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. ”
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey- Copy
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“ Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. ”
- Charles Burney- Copy
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“ Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ”
- G. M. Trevelyan- Copy
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“ Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ”
- Lord Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ There are little moments when Ted Baxter seeps through. His voice sinks down… there's a momentary expression. Ted Baxter is an extension of Ted Knight. I'll never completely divorce myself from that guy. But Baxter was limited, he only reacted, he couldn't resolve a critical situation. ”
- Ted Knight- Copy
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“ The focus of prayer is not the self… It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer. Thus, in beseeching Him for bread, there is one instant, at least, in which our mind is directed neither to our hunger nor to food, but to His mercy… ”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel- Copy
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“ The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- Copy
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“ Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street, heat his coffee and eat a can of beans… with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival. ”
- David Douglas Duncan- Copy
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