Temporary Quotes

786 quotes by 607 authors

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and… — Edmund Burke
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like… — Sarah Vowell
I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to… — Joan Didion
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion,… — David Guterson
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; andâ€¦though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. — Hunter S. Thompson
The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. — Wendell Berry
I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk… — Sarah Dessen
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in… — Nicholas Sparks
You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience. — Wayne Dyer
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a… — P.G. Wodehouse
No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesnâ€™t feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you… — Deb Caletti
All ends are temporary and all life is born from death. — Christopher Pike
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover… — Lev Grossman
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of… — Flann O'Brien
It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity. — Nelson DeMille
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent. — Kurt Vonnegut
Dead isnâ€™t angels or ghosts. Itâ€™s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a… — Jodi Picoult

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