Temporary Quotes - Page 18

• You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

  Amy Poehler

  Goodbye, Memories, Life Changing

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• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Loss, Long, Humanity

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• I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Custodians, Care, Trophies

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• A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Mistake, Plans, Pauses

  Jenna Ushkowitz, Sheryl Berk (2013). “Choosing Glee: 10 Rules to Finding Inspiration, Happiness, and the Real You”, p.109, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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.

  Elaine Chao

  Pay, Citizenship, Program

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• Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.

  Elaine Chao

  Fashion, Moving, Recovery

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• The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Believe, Thinking, Optimism

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• Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Views, Optimism, Causes

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• Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

  Al Alvarez

  Depression, Disappointment, Relaxation

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Giving Up, Mean

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.96, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• [I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Causes, Provision

  Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2010). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.205, Modern Library

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• In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given to the government, were withheld from it.

  James Madison

  Government, Constitution, Justified

  Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.191

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• As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.

  Bob Dole

  Believe, Fighting, Order

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• Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Soul, Aberration

  The History of Sexuality vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 2 (1976) (translation by Robert Hurley)

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• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

  Augustus

  Rome, Wife, Nuisance

  The Julian marriage laws (nos. 120-123, etc.), www.unrv.com.

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• I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Serendipity, Moss, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more.

  Meghan Daum

  Wise, Book, Self

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• To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted.
  Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Sacrifice, Skills

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

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• There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Heard, Has Beens

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• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Tables

  "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha' Businessweek". July 5, 1999.

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• Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our existence on earth we may serve as a plumber, professor, farmer, physician, mechanic, bookkeeper, or teacher. These are useful activities and honorable designations; but a temporary vocation is not reflective of our true identities. Matthew was a tax collector, Luke a physician, and Peter a fisherman. In a salvational sense, 'so what!'

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Teacher, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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• My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

  Lord Byron

  Power, Comfort, Teeth

  Letter to Thomas Moore, April 9, 1814.

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• . . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Friendship, Two, Individuality

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• I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

  Mike Todd

  Inspirational, Attitude, Divorce

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Howard Fineman

  Country, War, Media

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