Fleeting Quotes
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
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The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.
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There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.
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Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
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I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.
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In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.
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I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.
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Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.
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The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
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Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.
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A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
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Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
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At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
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Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.
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The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.
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Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
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On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.
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History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.
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Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older - that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.
