Quotes of Fleeting - somelinesforyou

“ Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, — "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — Solitude is sweet. ”

- William Cowper

“ 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

“ The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ”

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Vince Gill

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

- Mike Todd

“ The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? ”

- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

“ Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Charles Baudelaire

“ I believe that human civilization is passing through an era of great transformation. ”

- John Jenkins

“ I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. ”

- Francis Schaeffer

“ The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ”

- Chuang tzu

“ Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing. ”

- Martin Buber

“ We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. ”

- Robert Pirsig

“ O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young. ”

- William Morris

“ I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. ”

- Russell Baker

“ Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

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

- Dan Rather

“ For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back. ”

- Bible

“ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ”

- Walter Landor

“ Is she not passing fair? - The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. ”

- William Shakespeare
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