Temporary Quotes

All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming ‘reality.’

If you are recording, you are recording. I don’t believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

I completely understand how temporary fame is, and I keep my sanity at all times.

There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.

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.

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent‘s pressure, and the temporary failures.

Unfortunately, since its passage in 1973, the War Powers Resolution has been stripped of its original purpose and has instead served as a temporary, de facto authorization for the executive branch to use military force whenever it deems it necessary.

Graffiti’s always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

And if I have kids one day, I can tell them that I was famous on Instagram, which is really funny, and they will think that I’m really lame. Everything is temporary.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I’m really thankful for the popularity of ‘Strong Woman Do Bong Soon,’ but I know it’s only temporary.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we’ll get somewhere.

I’m a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.

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

Losing isn’t bitter because it’s temporary.

That’s what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

I hate ‘girlfriend‘ because it sounds so temporary. It’s very junior high.

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

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

To wear stays forces you into the elegant, balletic posture of a Georgian minuet-dancer. As with the tight-lacing, there is still great debate about whether stay-wearing, which began in adolescence, actually changed the shape of the skeleton, or was just a cosmetic, temporary, alteration.

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

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

A refrigerator, to me, isn’t as clever an appliance as people would have you believe. To me, it’s a cold limbo, a temporary reprieve from the inevitability of spoilage. The freezer, on the other hand, is a far more satisfying solution for keeping foods at their best.

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.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

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.

By training with Ken Hahn, who comes from that full-contact karate school where he’s hitting me in the back of the head while I’m hitting the bag, I learned that pain is a temporary state.

To respond to people’s needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net.

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

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

It simply cannot be that the president can name his own temporary attorney general to supervise an investigation in which he and his family have a direct, concrete interest.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

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.

Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.

If one sees far, structural changes that come with temporary disruptions can be growth- and efficiency-augmenting in the medium to long term.

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I’m not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who’s facing ‘climate exposure‘ – as it’s now called by money managers – cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.