Top 1200 Fleeting World Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

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

What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.

We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.

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

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

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

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

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

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

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.

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. You really have to have a legitimate talent to back it up.

Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.

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

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

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

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse reams alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

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