Transient Quotes

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Clouds, Mountains, Presence

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak

Ignorance, Self, State

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Half, Eternal

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
Robert Plant

Real, Situation, Known

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin

History, Government, Whatever

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Stephen Jay Gould

Mirror, Either, Survival

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
St. Jerome

Moment, Hour, Improve

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Baruch Spinoza

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Gene Tierney

Beauty, Left, Wealth

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
James Stockdale

Character, Issues, Permanent

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett

Truth, Experience, Brain

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor

Power, Ambition, Rest

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
James Bovard

Government, Election, Simply

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Jock Sturges

Good, Far, Concerned

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.
Tracey Emin

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Robert South

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear.
Gerry Mulligan

Life, Human, Hard

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.
Robert Welch

Time, Small, Memory

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.
Kevin Rollins

Good, Technology, Made

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.
Horst Koehler

Nature, Human, Christian

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Wilhelm Wundt

Science, Problem, Natural

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
James Grainger

Trouble, Fame, Empty

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
Keegan Allen

Love, Great, Humanity

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
Cecil Frank Powell

Matter, Existence, Atomic

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
Christoph Martin Wieland

Long, Pleasure, Source

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