Fleeting Quotes
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
Don Williams, Jr
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tiding...
Homer
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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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.
Diane Ackerman
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(On River Phoenix) I feel blessed to have worked with him and to have known him. He challenged me as an actress, he was always surprising and startlingly honest. He was an all to fleeting presence in my life, a beautiful young man. Who will always be in m...
Samantha Mathis
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We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
Aiysha Majid
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
Billie Jean King
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton
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It`s a moment that I`m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
Akiko Morigami
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In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Stefan Zweig
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I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can`t really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
Randy Harrison
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Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
Joe Bob Briggs
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When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, The dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb.
Pink Floyd
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What avails love when life is so ephemeral? What avaiIs a mortal’s love for the immortal? Love that is snuffed out by death’s passing blast Love without the pain, the passion that consumes? A flickering spark I am, aglow for a fleeting glance Flow vai...
Anna Lappe
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Adrian Coote
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Adam Wainwright
Subject: Fame QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
