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Theology is what I would consider “the dance of the unseen”, a slow dance with the intangible forces that shape the contours of existence. In this metaphysical ballroom, dogmas and doctrines swirl like ephemeral partners, casting shadows on the walls of human understanding. The unseen becomes the veil through which revelation flutters, inviting seekers to engage in the sacred minuet of contemplation. Here, theology is not merely an intellectual discourse but I would consider it a bold artistic expression.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
4 months ago

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life, let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings.

Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When somebody has died, and their estate is being sold, that is typically when their items increase in price, because it's emotional and ephemeral.

John Reznikoff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We built Fleets as a lower-pressure, ephemeral way for people to share their fleeting thoughts, but... we haven't seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation with Fleets like we hoped.

Ilya Brown

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t paint from emotion or feeling, which I think are both very ephemeral, for me, painting is much more about kind of trying to bring forth what is, I think, the universal truth.

Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Being liked can only be ephemeral. Being loved can be everlasting.

CLIFFORD VILLALON

added by Zandalee2000
3 years ago

Brick-and-mortar retailers are fighting over an ephemeral slice of a shrinking pie.

Jack Ablin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Ephemeral was born from a personal experience.

Seung Shin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The myopic policy makers have no endgame. They stumble from one short-term fiscal or monetary stimulus to the next, despite overwhelming evidence that they only produce an ephemeral 'sugar high' and grow unproductive debt that impedes long-term growth, the chickens are now coming home to roost.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Ephemeral emotions can be saved in the backyard of our memory. Beauty and poetry are stored in the mind and illuminate our thoughts. ( "Living life as a poem" )

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Those (products) are things that are there, and then they're gone, this is the stuff to me, just like the earliest cereal boxes for the launch of 'Star Wars.' ... This is the kind of stuff that is very ephemeral.

Steve Sansweet

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To be clear, more expensive liquidity is a price well worth paying for making the core of the system more robust, removing public subsidies is absolutely necessary for real markets to exist. Volatility characterizes such real markets and much of the pre-crisis market-making capacity among dealers was ephemeral.

Mark Carney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral, what you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

Taylor Swift

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.

Marcus Aurelius

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

Sybil Adelman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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