Temporary Quotes - Page 23

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  Zoe Saldana

  Love, Happiness, Bored

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

  David Lynch

  Kind, Building, Torn

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview With Christopher Bollen, Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.

  George Harrison

  God, Soul, Age

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• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.18, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Political, Ruins

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4177, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

  Germaine Greer

  Peace, Betrayal, Freedom

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

  Billy Sunday

  Religion, Doe, Baths

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.

  Bill Watterson

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Thinking

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, May

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• Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Creating, Victory, Violence

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Believe, Demand

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Mistake

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Eye, Hands

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• All salvation is temporary

  John Green

  Salvation

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.41, Penguin

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• The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

  Steven Pinker

  Uplifting, People, Soul

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.170, Penguin

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• The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, People, Inquiry

  Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett, Jacob Ernest Cooke (1962). “Papers: Harold C. Syrett, Editor; Jacob E. Cooke, Associate Editor”

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• Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.

  Caroline Knapp

  Giving, Missing, Lovely

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• Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Essentials, Substance, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Jul 26, 2012

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• You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

  John Green

  Children, Distance, Kids

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• In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

  John C. Maxwell

  Want, Reason, Cases

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

  Greg Behrendt

  Breakup, Hurt, Pain

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2009). “It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Falling In Love, Taken, Weekend

  Chetan Bhagat's speech given at the orientation program for the new batch of MBA students, www.chetanbhagat.com. July 24, 2008.

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• My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Dear, Permanent

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• Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Giving, Drug, Poppies

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.

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• Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
  No sensible capitalist would do that.

  Amory Lovins

  Inspirational, Money, Nature

  "The Blue Economy 3.0: The Marriage of Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creates a New Business Model That Transforms Society". Book by Gunter Pauli, 2017.

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