Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.