Fleeting Quotes

• There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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• My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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• We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Mistake, Grateful, Thinking

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Thinking, Doubt

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 416), March 6, 1995.

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• This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Men, Shining

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• What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or an anxiety induced by spiritual scoldings. It is faith in the promise that the enjoyment sin brings is fleeting and futile, but at God's right hand, and in the presence of His radiant glory, are pleasures evermore (Ps. 16:11).

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Religious, Hands

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• All glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Glory

  "Fictional character: General George S. Patton Jr". "Patton", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Time, Powerful

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• To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thoughtful, Superficial Things, Glances

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 29, 1799.

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• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Lonely, Pain

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• People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

  Chuck Norris

  Real, People, One Day

  "Chuck Norris Interview — Las Vegas 1999". Interview with Geoff Thompson, magazine.fighttimes.com. April 01, 2005.

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• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  Sallust

  Intellectual, Wealth, Prosperity

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• In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

  Stefan Zweig

  Moments, Reason, Reconciliation

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• Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Forever, Junk, Mail

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• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

  Mick Jagger

  Gone, Fluttering, Elusive

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• An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.215, Wildside Press LLC

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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

  Summer, Nature, Memories

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Reality, Joy

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, World, Might

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• It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Creative, Frozen, Moments

  Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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• Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

  Aga Khan III

  Life, Wings, Hours

  Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan) (1954). “The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time”

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