#momentary

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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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. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#appearance #attracted #beneath #concerned #consecutive

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure. ↗

— John Otto

#more #onstage #pressure

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? ↗

— Ada Cambridge

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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

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

— Eugene Field

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Passion is momentary; love is enduring. ↗

— John Wooden

#love #love is #momentary #passion