Momentary Quotes
Infidelity is not freedom. It's a momentary respite from stressors that are going to come back.
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.
Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.
Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.
Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.
The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.
Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.
There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."
When we choose to engage reality as the best each moment can be, we are shaping more positive experiences for others.
Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe.
This very moment is your greatest adventure.
Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence.
Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.
Let your existence be enough for a moment.
Rest your mind for a moment in the peace of knowing you were created and you do exist.
In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.
There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life's reward.