Quotes About Momentary

Why must every individual and every nation tremble for their existence? Because each seeks his own wretched momentary advantage and refuses to subordinate it to the welfare and prosperity of the community.

Ali na svu sre?u ljudi ne ostavljaju dubljeg traga u meni. Samo kratkotrajan dojam, kao što brod u vodi ostavlja brazdu. Ali voda se opet sastavi.

Will you be my friend?" Bertie asked. And then added: "Just for Paris. You don't have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.

I am always looking for meaningful one night stands.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

Ponder the capriciousness of human nature, which allows momentary appetites and fleeting attitudes to set the courses for entire lives and future responsibilities.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Isabella had been for some time capable of very strong, if very transient emotions...

In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.

I am a temporary amusement.

Crowd work has this feeling of being very temporary and of the moment, and I think that's why it sometimes gets a bad rap or a stigma.

They were like some popular cry, some vehement fancy, that comes down on a page of history for a day, and passes, leaving no other record at all except those lines on one page. And

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

A crash, a cry, and a laugh from Laurie, accompanied by the indecorous exclamation, Jupiter Ammon! Jo's upset the cake again! caused a momentary flurry, which was hardly over when a flock of cousins arrived, and 'the party came in', as Beth used to say when a child.

Things are only white for a bit.' Emilie

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

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

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

then they both turned away for a moment from the peppered wind. When

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the happy feeling had burned itself out and left behind a thin, cold rage. She was no longer entirely sure who she was angry with though. Her anger didn't have a fixed point. It was a soft whir of emotion to match the soft whir of the spokes.

Happiness has a very short half-life.

Life's but a day at most.