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Defeat is always momentary.
Anger is a momentary madness.
Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
I'm not a momentary decision maker. I like well-informed decisions.
Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again.
I feel like I wanna have a series of moments. It's scary when they say you're having a moment, because moments are momentary.
January is an odd month for everyone because of the transfer market, while it can happen during a season to have a momentary wobble.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
I e-mail or phone my best girlfriend daily. Having people who know you well helps you stay grounded and gives perspective to whatever momentary drama you're going through.
I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.
Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.
Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.
There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.