At the end, the key thing is you’ve got to live with yourself. That’s the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.
All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don’t do it.
To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.
I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.
Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.
Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.
Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one’s heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That’s strength.
The elusive nature of love… it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
People give more importance to material things, it all seems to be a power game, while people ought be making the most of every moment as time is fleeting.
Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn’t bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it’s fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you’re still there.
Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms… We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.
For me, it’s always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
Sophia – a mystical female presence whose appearance is only fleeting in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament – was clearly once a household name and a fixture in everyday lives.
You don’t always realize the impact you have on people’s lives. You just think ‘I’m an actor, I don’t think I’m doing anything particularly important in life’ and then you suddenly realize that actually for a fleeting moment you do make a difference to somebody’s life – it has an impact.
I understood at a young age that administrations come and go, but laws stay. So I decided to become a lawyer in order to help create a more just and peaceful world, not just in a fleeting moment but in a way that will endure from one generation to the next.
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there’s something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it’s fleeting, and it’s temporal.
Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I’m definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don’t want to be one of those people.
I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.
I’ve always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
I know the benefits of having a really great improv show are amazing because it was this one rare and fleeting thing that was incredible, but the risk just didn’t appeal to me. I liked the control of sitting down and writing things.
I’m not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I’m done, I’m never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.
An actor’s popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
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.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn’t a fleeting thing.
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it’s always fleeting.
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
I’ve been on pilots. I’ve seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try to keep it cool.
Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I’m sure of this; I’ve always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.
Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.
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