Temporary Quotes

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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.

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.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

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.

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.

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.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.