Quotes of Transitory - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ It still comes as something of a shock to say that word 'we' in the absence brought by Peter's passing. ”

- Dan Rather

“ Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. ”

- Konstantin Stanislavisky

“ Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal. ”

- Eliphas Levi

“ Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. ”

- Dottie Walters

“ If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by. ”

- John Maxwell

“ The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ”

- Jon Stewart

“ He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ”

- Vince Gill

“ The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ We must not be swayed by these temporary events. ”

- Junichiro Koizumi

“ I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. ”

- Mike Todd

“ Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. ”

- Martin Heidegger

“ Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. ”

- Martin Heidegger

“ Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. ”

- George Santayana

“ Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation. ”

- Sid Taylor

“ What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself. ”

- Horace

“ Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. ”

- Robert Bresson

“ Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ”

- Duke Ellington

“ An actress's life is so transitory - suddenly you're a building. ”

- Helen Hayes

“ Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton
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