#momentary

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

— Kingsley Amis

#itch #lets #love #momentary #never

outbox and its inherent transient nature - is it a take on life itself ? momentary, independent, fleeting and somewhat meaningless dwelling for all creations on their way out - to sent items. ↗

— Sunil Raina

#independent #momentary #outbox #nature

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

— G. M. Trevelyan

#control #madness #momentary #passion #will

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#momentary #pleasure #position #ridiculous #sex

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#beautiful woman #does #effect #even #men

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

#begins #clarification #confusion #cults #delight

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

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#ailments #attention #battalion #claim #come

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

#momentary #process #scientific #static #then