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Quotes About Temporary

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.
~ Lucas Papademos
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.
~ Neal Katyal
The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take back control of their own lives. But across the world, we see millions of people caught in semi-permanent crises. As each year goes by, they are less and less likely to break free.
~ Antonio Guterres
Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.
~ Rodney Frelinghuysen
Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
~ John Schlesinger
Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
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.
~ Martin Feldstein
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.
~ Craig Benson
While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
~ Ric Keller
Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
~ Mark McKinnon
Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.
~ Phil Robertson
I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.
~ John Battelle
To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need forever is taste.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels." Strike
~ Robert Galbraith
Not for the first time, he had cause to marvel at the fact that the woman who'd come to him as a temporary secretary had proven to be the agency's biggest asset.
~ Robert Galbraith
War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included.
~ Robert Hall
La bancarrota es temporal, la pobreza, eterna.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Success? It has the shortest half-life of any known substance.
~ Robertson Davies
Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.
~ Robyn Schneider
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people," he told Morris. "In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
~ Ron Chernow
July 10, 1790, the House approved the Residence Act, designating Philadelphia as the temporary capital and a ten-mile-square site on the Potomac as the permanent site.
~ Ron Chernow
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
~ Billy Graham
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
~ Seneca the Younger