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Quotes About Momentary

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
~ Seneca the Younger
Luck never gives; it only lends.
~ Swedish Proverb
I've got a short memory span.
~ O. J. Mayo
Because in a split second, it's gone.
~ Ayrton Senna
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
~ Victor Hugo
momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.
~ Victor Hugo
The answer is found in the word "achieving," for these "momentary troubles are achieving for us" something very precious. They are teaching us not only the way to victory but, better still, the law of victory—there is a reward for every sorrow, and the sorrow itself produces the reward.
~ L.B. Cowman
Man's life is short and transitory because they devote most of their lives also to what is transient and momentary.
~ L.F. Magister
Kegunaan popcorn hanya sekali: untuk dikunyah dan ditelan. kriuk kriuk, habis.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
What glitters, lives but for the moment; what has real worth, survives for all posterity.
~ Goethe
Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?
~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
~ Helen Rowland
Though it may afford momentary psychological relief, it is an illusion which physiologically, surely, must not be without danger.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)...
~ Virginia Woolf
Freedom for the moment is everything
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A smile vanquishes loneliness, if only for a fleeting moment.
~ Terri Guillemets
Amazing how beauty can be so fleeting.
~ James Patterson
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Recording and touring are totally separate universes for me and it's strange and refreshing when they invade each other momentarily.
~ Phil Elverum
I'd rather be a shooting star than a fading star.
~ Tyrann Mathieu
The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
~ Yami Gautam
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
~ Octavio Paz
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
~ Oscar Wilde
it struck me that maybe the young girl had just been a prostitute. I felt a momentary sigh of gratitude, and then the awareness stopped me cold, the walls pulsed in on me. How cheap was I?
~ Colum McCann