Fleeting Quotes - Page 19

• Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

  Tony Romo

  Play, Guy, Stuff

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• All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

  Pope Francis

  Block, Thinking, Self

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• Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fate, Play, Matter

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.61, Modern Library

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• Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and perseverance on days when I had none-and even, once every great while, warmed me with that fleeting ray of sunshine known as glory. Running has taught me that I can do anything, just so long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes that notion is metaphorical and sometimes not. In this way, I have been inspired to attempt things I would have never dreamed possible. And it all started with a single step.

  Martin Dugard

  Motivational, Running, Perseverance

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.7, Rodale

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• I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

  Chet Raymo

  Stars, Home, Night

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• We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, Connections, Definitions

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

  James Joyce

  Love, Life, Lasts

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Media, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Clouds, Language

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.68, Graphic Arts Books

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• The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Sex, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

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• Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Looks, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.396

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• Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

  Seneca the Younger

  Beauty, Rely Upon, Delight

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• Don't let your heart depend on things
  That ornament life in a fleeting way!
  He who possesses, let him learn to lose,
  He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Pain, Heart, Ornaments

  "The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. iv, 1803.

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• Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Christian, Women, Knitting

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• The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

  Sallust

  Beauty, Shining, Age

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• Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

  John Wooden

  Honor, Cherish, Fame

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• You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you’re out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

  Johnny Galecki

  People, Important, Twenties

  "15 Minutes With Johnny Galecki". Interview with Jon Steely, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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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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• I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

  Phillip Lim

  Thinking, Ideas, Appreciate

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• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  Walead Beshty

  Photography, Discovery, Desire

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• Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Feelings, May

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I worked on "Tree of Life." It was just magical. It was like a little family. A fleeting, beautiful alliance to forge something meaningful. It was amazing, like a transcendental experience to be on the set.

  Sam Pressman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Tree

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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