Momentary Quotes
Momentary Quote of the day
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play.
.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'
I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.
Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.
The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.
Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.
