Temporary Quotes - Page 28

• I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Cities, Identity, Foundation

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• Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Giving, Important, Events

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• Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

  Doug Stanhope

  Boring, Reason

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• I don't pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there'll be slack times in my career. It's unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.

  Lea Seydoux

  Jobs, Careers, One Day

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• I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career goes, I always felt, as an actor, that it was something that would just be a temporary thing that would get me to what I wanted to do next. That's what my acting did. I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

  Steve Antin

  Careers, Acting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Donald Trump has opened [ politically correct enforcement] up wide. He`s made a very bold statement and he`s backed it back just a little bit when he said it is temporary.

  Ted Cruz

  Enforcement, Littles, Made

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of a temporary halt in Muslims coming to the U.S. was a common sense proposal in a time of great fear about terrorism.

  Steve Inskeep

  Ideas, Common Sense, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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!

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Parent, Remember

  "The Drew Carey Show". TV Series, www.imdb.com. September 13, 1995.

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• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Block, Party

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

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• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Self, Age, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.247, North Atlantic Books

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• Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer one. It is wrong to assume that everything ends with death; what ends is only the temporary conditions in which people have lived on earth.

  Peter Deunov

  People, Degrees, Earth

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

  Randy Alcorn

  Opportunity, Rewards, Incredibles

  Randy Alcorn (2013). “The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.”, p.21, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Years, Two

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Mother, Taught, Postponement

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• I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Night, Might, Pillow

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• The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .

  David Deida

  Wise, Energy, Needs

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• The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer

  Ernst Junger

  Volunteer, Special, World

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• All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.

  John Green

  Years, Forever, Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

  Gregory Maguire

  Needs, Impermanence, Discredit

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• I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

  John Green

  Pain, Body, Consciousness

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

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

  Rachel Caine

  Optimism, Drug, Sometimes

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Windfall”, p.173, Allison & Busby

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• I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

  John Green

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.223, Penguin

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• Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

  James Patterson

  Smart, Decision, Life Is

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• This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

  Aldo Leopold

  Pain, Disappointment, Mistake

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

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• But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.

  Nicole Krauss

  Falling In Love, Loneliness, Impossible

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.219, Penguin UK

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