Top 252 Momentary Quotes & Sayings

The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

I'm not a momentary decision maker. I like well-informed decisions.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Violence often brings about momentary results.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory. The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'

January is an odd month for everyone because of the transfer market, while it can happen during a season to have a momentary wobble.

Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It's a momentary conjunction of personalities.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Defeat is always momentary.

Anger is a momentary madness.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

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

The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.