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Quotes about Short-lived

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
- Thomas Adams
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- George Bernard Shaw
The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin. However, it is short-lived and fatal.
- Billy Graham
In his diary of the summer he wrote: " 'He makes His ministers a flame of fire.' Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. But flame is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul—short life? In me there dwells the Spirit of the Great Short-Lived, whose zeal for God's house consumed Him. 'Make me Thy Fuel, Flame of God.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Everything in life is just for a while.
- Philip K. Dick
Everything gains only momentary explanation.
- Ravi Zacharias
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
- James Madison