Fleeting Quotes
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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.
Bo Lozoff
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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.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
William Osler
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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.
Eudora Welty
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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.
Jeff Goldblum
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The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Epictetus
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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.
Jeff Goldblum
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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.
Sarah MacLean
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Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.
Ettore Sottsass
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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.
Nicolas Berggruen
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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.
Dennis Stock
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Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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.
Ben Sherwood
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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.
Steven Spielberg
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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.
Frank Iero
My Chemical Romance
