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Top Transient Quotes

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Vladimir Putin

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Tracey Emin

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

James Grainger

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

Stephen Jay Gould

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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All Transient Quotes

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Horst Koehler

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Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Christoph Martin Wieland

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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

Robert South

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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor

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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Arnold Bennett

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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Gene Tierney

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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

James Stockdale

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The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

Cecil Frank Powell

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His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.

Robert Welch

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