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Quotes About Momentary

Not long, my duckie
~ D.H. Lawrence
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Her nitelik zaman zaman anl?k ko?ullar taraf?ndan de?erinin ilerisine ta??n?r.
~ Jane Austen
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
~ Duane Michals
Bubbles are always new; you just can't find an old bubble.
~ Tom Noddy
everywhere I turn my name is written on the rocks in lead.  For I have come, not from obscurity into the momentary notoriety of crime, but from a sort of eternity of fame to a sort of eternity of infamy, and sometimes seem to myself to have shown, if indeed it required showing, that between the famous and the infamous there is but one step, if as much as one.
~ Oscar Wilde
you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
~ Pat Conroy
Not like the same face on the passing bus that seems to speak, that is seen once and at least is gone forever
~ Patricia Highsmith
There's really no point in doing anything in life because it's all over in the blink of an eye. The next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.
~ Wes Anderson
only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...
~ William Faulkner
The sensation felt like spinning too fast on a merry-go-round. Each fraction of a second her eyes focused on a new face in a crowd. Within seconds the face was gone, whisked to a blur, replaced by another face that would just as soon be lost.
~ Heidi Julavits
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
a ordem sem liberdade, ainda que alicerçada numa exaltação momentânea, acaba por gerar os seus próprios anticorpos; mas a liberdade não pode ser garantida nem preservada sem uma moldura de ordem que preserve a paz.
~ Henry Kissinger
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
~ lewis c s ii
All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.
~ Jasper Fforde
I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Everything is temporary!
~ Unknown
Scrambling for security has never brought anything but momentary joy.
~ Pema Chodron
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
~ Bernard Berenson
Rogers's features were rigid, though Puller could see momentary flashes of pain, represented
~ David Baldacci
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
~ William Shakespeare
Ten years is a long time in this fugitive world.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
~ Clarice Lispector