Temporary Quotes

I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die!

Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

In the end, all solutions are temporary.

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.

A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.

Temporary anger is no need to make permanent mistakes.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

All salvation is temporary

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

Eating healthy and exercising won't help you if it's only temporary.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.

They [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.

Anger is temporary madness.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.