Fleetingly Synonym Quotes & Sayings

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world. — Douglas MacArthur

I hate often and easily. I hate, for example, people who sit with their legs splayed. People who claim to give 110 percent. People who call themselves "comfortable" when what they mean is decadently rich. You're so judgmental, my shrink tells me, and I cry all the way home, thinking of it. — Jenny Offill

The world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a little wacky. That's a holy truth. It just simply cannot be otherwise. — Joseph O'Connor

I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Think for a moment about the process that humans have used to record events throughout history. The first evidence we know of is paintings on cave walls. A little further along in time, after many intermediate steps, we see the development of writing. In the more recent past, we see the invention of the camera, audio recording devices, and ultimately video. The manner in which humans have recorded history (and to a lesser extent our own lives) has evolved. We've come a long way. Consider the implications of time. Much of the technology we take for granted today was pure science fiction 50-100 years ago, a dream 200 years ago, and inconceivable 500 years ago. Using these groupings of viewpoints, we can project into the future and categorize the possibilities. In — Todd William

One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent. — Deena Metzger

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. — Steve Toltz

The Bible is a fountain of wisdom and knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita