Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Eagleman

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Charlie Adam

I just love watching football. It doesn't matter what level it is, whether it's Fleetwood or Blackpool. I love to go and watch games.

This fleet in Key West will be a little stronger than we've seen so far. We're ready to turn it up a notch and see how we can do.

This fleet has been shrunk in a 10-year time frame to relatively nothing. This will just get rid of more boats.

Jeff Goodell

Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.

Putting those in the rental fleet would be like putting a match to gasoline.

These are the kind of people we like to remove from society, ... He didn't have time to flee (between arrests).

Fran Lebowitz

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

You still have a huge fleet of airplanes ... tremendous overcapacity in the market.

You still have a huge fleet of airplanes ... tremendous over-capacity in the market.

Tom Clancy

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

Emily Giffin

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

Sean Penn

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

Queen Rania of Jordan

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

Miles Franklin

... we each have our fleeting hour.

Paulo Coelho

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

Marianne Wiggins

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

M. F. K. Fisher

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

Tori Amos

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

Sallust

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

Samuel Johnson

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Umberto Eco

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

Karl Kraus

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.