Transient Quotations

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

The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed, sealed, recorded, possession given. No renters, no lessees of Heaven, but all property and home owners.

Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

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

I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.

The word book acted as a transient stimulus

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

Low-level signals define harmonics, instrument timber, high-frequency extension, spatial cues, fast transient attacks, and other signals that provide resolution and depth to high-end audio and video. When AC noise is allowed into audio processors, pre-amplifiers, powered monitors, computers, and mixing consoles, these low-level signals are distorted, degrading performance. The IT-20 II preserves those important signals by eliminating the noise that masks them.

Maybe I am more about sensuality than sexuality now, maybe not quite so in your face, ... I also think that eyewear right now, and in other product categories, is in a moment where people want some authenticity, they want value, they don't want to feel it is quite so transient and trendy and empty, as a lot of the things that all of us in the fashion industry were doing in the late nineties.

Nobody tells you when success comes around; in its transient way, you're just working and exhausted all the time. Sometimes I think I'm just sleeping in the back of cars, d'you know what I mean?

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

We have a lot of reason to hope that these were transient problems and we can proceed normally.

We serve the surrounding neighborhoods, and many are transient and come from low-income families. These are the students we aim to serve, and we don't turn them away. We're here to help them.

Upon getting here they found a tent ... it looked like an encampment, a transient camp. Inside they found a body of a white adult male in fairly late stages of decomposition. Naturally, we're going to investigate, right now there doesn't appear they're any suspicious signs around the body.

We want to be able to service our customers' needs. Our vertical integration strategy allows us to do that for conventions and meetings at full-service properties, transient business at select-service properties and to fill extended-stay needs.

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

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.

With our focus on upscale, full-service brands in major urban markets, we benefited fully from the continuing growth in transient business demand and the increased competitive strength of our portfolio. We are encouraged that the development pipeline remains conservative, especially in urban markets, where barriers to new competition are the highest.

With the convention business, (the golf course) is a huge aspect for our groups. It's something we've been missing for so long. It's also going to allow us to offer packages for our transient guests.

Eternal Power!Grant me, through obvious clouds, one transient gleamOf thy bright essence in my dying hour.

Eternal Power! Grant me, through obvious clouds, one transient gleam Of thy bright essence in my dying hour.

Radio is a transient business and a career was important to me, so I knew I had to do what I had to do to make it. The pay at the beginning is no good but the idea was to move up. I had a family to support so when the opportunities came, I went.

People thought I was crazy, but it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened, ... People here have a great work ethic, an innate loyalty that's different from other places with more of a transient population.

They (the British) are appalled to hear we have transient parking under a facility like the World Trade Center.

It's very difficult to get a handle on the true count. It's a very transient population and they move around a lot.

If you can get the right people to the right jobs, you should be able to pick off some tens of thousands into permanent employment. But as you push towards trying to employ those with more profound mental health or substance abuse problems, and who have lived longer in a transient life, it becomes more difficult.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

The true end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

A Creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.