Fleeting Quotes - Page 17

• Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art.

  Susan Orlean

  Fashion, Art, Writing

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.

  James Allen

  Integrity, Land, May

  James Allen (2016). “From Poverty to Power”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Differences, Forever

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

  Richard Branson

  Ideas, Capture

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• A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

  Martine Franck

  Lying, Photograph, Impression

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• Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Waiting, Stuff

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

  Alicia Keys

  Want, Moments

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

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• Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

  Mike Birbiglia

  May

  "How Mike Birbiglia and Keegan-Michael Key found common comedy ground: 'He helped me "make less"of it'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. July 22, 2016.

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• Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

  Charles Stanley

  Philosophy, Men, Made

  Charles F. Stanley (2012). “Turning the Tide: Real Hope, Real Change”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gambling, Dumb, Victory

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• At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Anchors, Greed

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• He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Blood, Hands

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• Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Summer, Stars

  "Fictional character: Duke". "The Notebook", 2004.

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• So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

  Margaret George

  Relationship, Loss, Night

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Missing, Solitude, Subway

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Feb 12, 2012

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• Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation

  Kiersten White

  Beautiful, Powerful, Animal

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• The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Men, Order

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• What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

  Lindsey Stirling

  Children, Real, People

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• Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

  François Lelord

  Hair, People, Joy

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• Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Oxygen, Joy, Rising

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• We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

  Barack Obama

  What Matters, People, Earth

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Rays, Forgotten

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power

  Nir Eyal

  Real, Commitment, Thinking

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