Temporary Quotes

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.