#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. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beside #childhood #conjure #fleeting #lake

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#angry #art #how #life #man

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. ↗

— Felix Adler

#been #commercial #commercial world #craving #desire

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. ↗

— Eugene Field

#ace #apprehension #else #king #momentary

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. ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him

Passion is momentary; love is enduring. ↗

— John Wooden

#love #love is #momentary #passion

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. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#climax #continues #during #emphatic #end

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#disciplined #expression #films #follow #i

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#display #fellow #fellow creatures #like #love

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#itch #lets #love #momentary #never