Temporary Quotes
786 quotes by 607 authors
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You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the…
— John Green
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Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great…
— Caroline Knapp
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It's just a temporary thing.
— Lou Reed
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The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a…
— Steven Pinker
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It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The…
— Rick Warren
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All salvation is temporary
— John Green
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What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body;…
— Haruki Murakami
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Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to…
— Frank Herbert
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Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.
— Ann Hood
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
— Jeanette Winterson
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As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of…
— Marianne Williamson
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The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor…
— Margaret Atwood
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Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.
— T.D. Jakes
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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…
— David Levithan
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Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could…
— Sarah Dessen
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I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something…
— Rick Riordan
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