Temporary Quotes - Page 29

• Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

  Jewel

  Giving, Enough Time, Ifs

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• But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

  Deb Caletti

  Attitude, Water, Desert

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• And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

  Rachel Vincent

  Crazy, Real, Temporary Insanity

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.159, MIRA

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• the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  World, Flesh, Spirit

  Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Running, Lakes, Ducks

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• I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Body, Feels

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• All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Description, Hypothesis

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• We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

  Simon Pegg

  Fate, People, Choices

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• I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Changed

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• No matter how difficult something you or a loved one faces, it should not take over your life and be the center of all your interest. Challenges are growth experiences,temporary scenes to be played out on the background of a pleasant life. Don’t become so absorbed in a single event that you can’t think of anything else or care for yourself or for those who depend upon you. Remember, much like the mending of the body, the healing of some spiritual and emotional challenges takes time.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Healing, Emotional

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• It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Summer, Recovery, Average

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• Then I saw a small dark dot enter the lower left corner of the vision. It floated up a ways and then suddenly disappeared. The Lord authoritatively announced, "That dot represents all the evil of all beings and of all history combined. It's temporary and fleeting compared to Who I Am. So what are you going to magnify?"

  Bob Hartley

  Dark, Who I Am, Evil

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• There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tragedy, Needs, Reason

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 26, 2014

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Ignorance, Hands

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• The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

  David Levithan

  Together Again, Two, Way

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.170, Penguin

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• Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

  Napoleon Hill

  Business, Temporary Defeat, Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.91, Ballantine Books

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• That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Night, People

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Feb 20, 2017

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• We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hero, Long, Effort

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• Six months since we met up again we are inseparable, an intricate weave. No longer do I believe this is a temporary fling. More like total commitment. More like I have walked down the aisle, holding hands with the monster.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Commitment, Hands

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Glass”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home

  Carrie Underwood

  Home, Way, Rooms

  Song: Temporary Home, Album: Play On, 2009

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• To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Temporary Insanity

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Sadness, Loss

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• We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

  Timothy Leary

  Clouds, Small Numbers, Together

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• It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

  Alice Munro

  Emotional, World, Unhappiness

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Mar 10, 2013

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• Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Kings, Temporary Insanity, Hands

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