Quotes About Momentary

Just like that, they were gone and the patio was mellow again. As Rich said later, it was like a "gust of wind." MJ was the gust; everyone else was the twigs, leaves, and branches flying around.

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

The box is only temporary.

to learn that you can never learn anything valid for truth, only momentary, transitory sayings that apply to you in your moment, your locality, and your present state of mind

It was one of those temporary situations with a whiff of forever about it.

A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.

La razón sólo nos sirve para disecar la realidad en calma, o analizar sus futuras tormentas, nunca para resolver una crisis momentánea

vienen como todo el resto, se pegan a la vida por un momento y después hay como una ansiedad rencorosa, huecos volcándose para mostrar jirones que se enganchan en cualquier otra cosa...

The lines I'm referring to, Lewis, are that Triumph and Disaster are the same. They're both impostors because they are momentary. More important is becoming a man of convictions. Lasting joy comes from that.

His full parenthesis was closed, and he was once more but a sentence, of a sort, in the general text, the text that, from his momentary street-corner, showed as a great grey page of print that somehow managed to be crowded without being 'fine'.

Her laugh produced in him a momentary gloom.

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

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

Cómo es posible condenar algo fugaz?

Einmal ist keinmal

His tired face was lit with a brief beauty as he smiled, and the two nuns and Colonel Nicobar and Twingo smiled too, glad to find a common ground for merriment, however momentary. For a few seconds Stalin, Pope Pius the Twelfth, and King George the Sixth laughed together in the persons of their representatives.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

If the Earth were as old as a person, a typical organism would be born, live and die in a sliver of a second. We are fleeting, transitional creatures, snowflakes fallen on the hearth fire.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

The only offer/threat that had perked her momentary interest was when he'd shouted that he was going to "toop her 'til her bonny legs fell off.

You don't even live once.

What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to last, only to be valued and its lesson taken to heart.