Fleetingly Quotes

#1. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

Gregory Rabassa

#2. Anger usually only serves us, and even then, only very fleetingly.

Sam Owen

#3. I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.

Augusten Burroughs

#4. Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.

Zane Grey

#5. He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

Martha Moody

#6. This fascination with the human face has never left me ... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being ... Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.

Philippe Halsman

#7. Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

Diane Keaton

#8. Fleetingly, unnervingly, I understand what he's saying but cannot accept a world that is so brutally black and white. Murder, rape and torture are the apparatus of terrorists, not of civilized societies. If we become like them, what hope do we have?

Michael Robotham

#9. She fleetingly wished this handsome stranger could be the object of her desires, instead of his black-hearted companion.

Kat Martin

#10. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

Laini Taylor

#11. There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

Kate Milford

#12. I think, fleetingly, that the reason I don't need vengeance is that I have love. Vengeance doesn't give you anything. It doesn't fill you up or soothe you, satisfy you or change you. And

Robin York

#13. He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks ...

Robert Galbraith

#14. Love, it seems, arrives not only unannounced, but so accidentally, so randomly, as to make you wonder why you, why anyone, believes even fleetingly in laws of cause and effect

Michael Cunningham

#15. I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Laini Taylor

#16. A MAN FINDS happiness so fleetingly, like the petals melting off a prairie rose. Even as you touch that feeling it dries up, leaving only the dust of that emotion, a powder of hope.

Louise Erdrich

#17. One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.

Julianna Baggott

#18. Fleetingly he wondered what the man's life had been like, where it had gone so desperately wrong. No one tried to end up like this, alone and defenseless and poor, eking a living from the harsh Arizona desert.

Kristin Hannah

#19. I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

Sarah Dessen

#20. you are
as fleetingly beautiful

as a mother's tears
and a father's pranks

a brother's bachelorhood
and a best friend's bad mood

a bride's glittering jitters
and a handsome stranger's smile.

Sanober Khan

#21. It had been a boy's trick, Jerott remembered. Standing bareback on your father's horses; somersaulting, chariot-riding. Francis, buried in books, had never publicly attempted it. What private practice, Jerott wondered fleetingly, had gone into that?

Dorothy Dunnett

#22. Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time ... When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Muriel Barbery

#23. I thought fleetingly of Anne, how the faces changed but the act was always the same, the need was always the same, no one drew a line between the sex you bought and the love you made, and your body could not tell the difference.

Miles Watson

#24. Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.

Alexandra Adornetto

#25. What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.

Ilana Glazer

#26. Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Emma Goldman

#27. Hadn't we better go to the livingroom?

Harper Lee

#28. In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

Scott Adsit

#29. Conservatism is like plaque; even once scraped away, it builds up again to problematic levels, so that what is now permissible can yet again become taboo -

Steve Toltz

#30. Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Doris Lessing

#31. Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

Vanessa Paradis

#32. He also feels, like most men, that a father should not trust to a daughter's judgement on a decision as important as the selection of her husband.

Cayla Kluver

#33. In Greece, British troops entered after the Nazis had withdrawn. They imposed a corrupt regime that evoked renewed resistance, and Britain, in its postwar decline, was unable to maintain control. In 1947, the United States moved in, supporting a murderous war that resulted in about 160,000 deaths.

Noam Chomsky

#34. A cloak of darkness she wove about them when Melkor and Ungoliant set forth: an Unlight,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#35. Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban

#36. When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

Michelle Yeoh

#37. I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Billy Wilder

#38. Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.

Gary W. Keller