Provisional Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set… — Richard Ford
I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage. — Demian Bichir
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. — Cees Nooteboom
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might… — Stephen Jay Gould
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. — Viktor E. Frankl
Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too… — C.S. Lewis
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants… — Jorge Luis Borges
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times… — Stephen Hawking
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to… — Duong Van Minh
The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional, as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too, the… — Buddha

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