Quotes About Short-lived

Everything in life is just for a while.

The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

The whole basketball world, it's a fantasy and it's short-lived.

Football is a short-lived career, and you have to maximise your earning power while you can.

Everything gains only momentary explanation.

There are some people who live to be thirty-five or forty, but because no one ever notices, their lives are candle-brief, invisible-small.

Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

That life—whatever else it is—is short.

in most cases, however, the terror was extremely short-lived, as was the person experiencing the terror.

Some candles are $40, and you burn them for two days and they're done.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self-interest, and it is extremely short-sighted. Most politicians and businesspeople are clever. Very few are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is short-lived and always turns out to be eventually self-defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence includes.

Satisfaction through gratification will always be short-lived, therefore it will always be projected again. You see time as the means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation. You get there by realizing you *are* there already.

And now, though feeble and short-lived, mankind has flaming fire and therefrom learns many crafts.

Even pain was preferable to numbness, at least for a while, and hope, once indulged, was only as delicious as it was short-lived.

Who's he seeing now then?" "No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long.

Transient guests are we.