“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!”
Walter Savage Landor
“Eternal Power!Grant me, through obvious clouds, one transient gleamOf thy bright essence in my dying hour.”
William Beckford
“(Downtown has) a very good concentration of similar kinds of workplaces and ones that are generally ignored by other unions because of the small size and the transient nature of the workers.”
Amy Mondloch
“Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal”
Greek proverb
“[Mitchell, 49, was] a fairly famous transient down in Salt Lake, ... Emmanuel.”
Tom Smart
“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!”
St. Jerome
