Quotes About Transiency

#1. TRANSIENCY We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Gautama Buddha

#3. I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio ... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do.

Omer Simeon

#4. The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Jan Schakowsky

#5. Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it's about finding him; he comes in in the third act.

Ridley Scott

#6. Lie faces God and shrikns from men

Francis Bacon

#7. Our place had just four rooms and voices had a way of carrying, you couldn't sneeze in one room without somebody in another saying bless you.

Justin Cronin

#8. For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame

#9. Over and over, the effects of America's diffusion, and then of its efforts to adjust to that diffusion, seemed to reach the wealthy and advantaged as rewards, but hit the poor and disadvantaged as punishments.

Yuval Levin

#10. James had no intentions; he could not afford to have any; he could not afford to rope another person to his saddle. All he could do was keep his head down and get his work done.

Jo Baker

#11. I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't ... don't want to be the one left behind.

Samantha Sotto

#12. The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

George Sterling

#13. Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Ahmed Mostafa

#14. Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#15. When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.

Don Borchert

#16. The wines are Saccone and Speed,' he had said. It was a merchant's observation. He had meant that even there, in the centre of Africa, the wine had come from the shippers on our east coast, and not from the people on the other side. But in my imagination I allowed the words to stand for pure bliss.

V.S. Naipaul