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  • Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75
  • And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.

    Feelings   East   Gone  
    Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.383, Wordsworth Editions
  • Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

    Buddhism   Agony   Mind  
  • Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  • And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

    Character   Past   Names  
  • Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

    Men   Merit   Doe  
  • Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

    Source: www.barnesandnoble.com
  • The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

  • Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures.

  • To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

    Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”
  • Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

  • If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.

    War   Lying   Battle  
  • Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

    Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press
  • I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.

    Transition   Pace   Way  
    Source: www.askmen.com
  • When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.

    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

    Morning   Heaven   Dew  
    Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.73
  • EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.74, University of Georgia Press
  • Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.

  • O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.

    Christian   Jesus   Heart  
    Isaac Ambrose “The Christian Warrior”, Digital Puritan Press
  • Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

    Running   Dream   Anchors  
    Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict: A Novel”, Little, Brown
  • Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.

    Fashion   Believe   Style  
  • What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid

  • Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

    Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.73, Harvard University Press
  • Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

    Emotional   Law   Space  
    Letter to August Derleth (21 November 1930), in "Selected Letters III, 1929-1931" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 220), 1971.
  • Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

    Form   Like Me   Mortals  
    Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.8, Om Books International
  • Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

    Art   Rewards   Difficult  
  • The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.

    Art   Passion   Men  
    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.383, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

    Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.77, Princeton University Press
  • I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

    Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.358
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