Temporary Quotes - Page 22

• The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

  William Gurnall

  Storm, May

  William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.168, Moody Publishers

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• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

  Gail Sheehy

  Life, Change, Growth

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

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• Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

  T. D. Jakes

  Decision, Storm, Matter

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• Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were certain that they did. Over and over and over I would say to myself, If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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  Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

  T. D. Jakes

  Cancer, Frustration, People

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• Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

  Martin Feldstein

  Running, Government, Growth

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• There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Needs, Recycling

  "My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt" by Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 09, 2007.

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• Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

  Mason Cooley

  New Year, Party, Literature

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Fighting, Two

  "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

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• There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Children, Unique, Parent

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• Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

  Roger Staubach

  Life, Basketball, Hard Work

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• Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

  William Feather

  Hard Work, Quality, Advancement

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• In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

  David Suzuki

  Fighting, Victory, Environmental

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• We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Order, Imagination

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

  Gus Van Sant

  Brother, Character, Kids

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• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ghana, Liable, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Integrity, Responsibility, Men

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• Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Creating, Knowing

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• Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Drinking, Alcohol

  "The Conquest of Happiness". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1930.

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• Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

  Sean Penn

  Sacrifice, Medicine, Soldier

  Open Letter to the President George W. Bush, www.snopes.com. November 3, 2002.

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• 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.

  Jane Pauley

  Thinking, Way, Kind

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• Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Fame

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• No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

  Josh McDowell

  Disappointment, Struggle, Matter

  Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.41, Baker Books

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• I've always been attracted to temporary families.

  Gus Van Sant

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• The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

  George MacDonald

  Health, Exercise, Appreciate

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