Top 281 Transient Quotes & Sayings

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

When you're a young actor, you're expected to live a transient life.

Music is like fashion, it's transient and cyclical.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...

I see myself as a transient, not an immigrant.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

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

We have a very transient population. We have a lot of people that live here and work or play in New Orleans.

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

We got sacked for the first time when we were just 18 and you realise that this whole industry is transient and changeable.

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Fashion's transient - it moves.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

The word book acted as a transient stimulus

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

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

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

People say that Americans trends are transient, but the one activity we never seem to tire of is being outraged. Boy, do we love it!

And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.

civilization is a transient sickness.

Success is transient and so is failure.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

Music is so transient. You've just got to move with it.

I have a transient lifestyle. America is where I come to work, but my home is London. I like being bi-continental.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.