Temporary Quotes - Page 24

• Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.

  James W. Moseley

  Jobs, Business, Understanding

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• If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

  Bernard Williams

  Disappointment, Regret, Business

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• The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Order, Political

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

  Rick Bragg

  Success, Common, Poor

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 29, 2011

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• Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

  Lance Armstrong

  Book, Thinking, Men

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• She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table - quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Running, Tired

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• Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

  Patricia Briggs

  Baking, Results, Washing

  Patricia Briggs (2004). “Raven's Shadow”, p.44, Penguin

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• How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

  Craig Thompson

  Matter, Movement, Maps

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• I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Temporary Insanity, Defense

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• the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....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....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Giving Up, Believe

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• we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Essence, Tasks, Earth

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• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Angel, House, Atoms

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

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• The band has decided to give him and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper honeymoon and do all the things a newlywed couple should do. I'm very proud to announce my brother's recent marriage. Watching him grow up into a man and finding love makes me the happiest brother alive. I know this is upsetting news, as it is for us, but we will continues to tour with a temporary replacement until he has situated himself in his new life.

  Gerard Way

  Love, Brother, Growing Up

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• It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns.

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Careers, Goal

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Feb 04, 2016

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• One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

  Josh Billings

  Pride, Men, Air

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Evil

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

  John of Kronstadt

  Forgiveness, Christian, Wise

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• Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Brother, Teenager, Emotional

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Suicide, Kids, Thinking

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

  Gail Carriger

  Cases, Idiocy, Knows

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Blow, Cells, People

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• Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Fun, Hands, Joy

  Liz Curtis Higgs (2004). “Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn From Them”, p.8, WaterBrook

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• Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?

  Warsan Shire

  Falling In Love, Hands, Wish

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• Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

  Andy Stanley

  Stewardship

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