Temporary Quotes
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.
Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.
Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.
But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.
Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent.
Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.
Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
Relationships are temporary, friendships are forever! Unless they sleep with your boyfriend!
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.
The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.