Temporary Quotes
786 quotes by 568 authors
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Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are…
— Chetan Bhagat
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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;…
— Ernst Junger
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1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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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…
— Richard G. Scott
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Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in…
— Bell Hooks
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Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the…
— H P Lovecraft
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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…
— Alice Munro
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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…
— Timothy Leary
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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…
— Gail Caldwell
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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…
— Dorothy Koomson
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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…
— Carrie Underwood
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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…
— Ellen Hopkins
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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…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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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…
— Margaret Atwood
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Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats
— Napoleon Hill
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I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
— Sidney Sheldon
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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…
— Simon Pegg
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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
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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…
— Aldo Leopold
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
— Gregory Maguire
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