logo

Quotes About Temporary

To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Will you be my friend?" Bertie asked. And then added: "Just for Paris. You don't have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
We change the earth and our changes may only be temporary; yet the signs of what we have done may persist, as these mounds did.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Someone who lived at Square One would be one who knew that much of our achievement is temporary, if not even illusory, and that ultimately we return to the place we started from, if not geographically, then at least metaphorically. We were born with nothing, and left this life with nothing, whatever glories and conceits we created for ourselves.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
they could discuss moving her temporarily to a VIP guest house on base.
~ Douglas E. Richards
As Dr Tino Sanandaji has pointed out, it costs more for 3,000 migrants to be housed in temporary accommodation tents in Sweden than it does to fund outright the largest refugee camp in Jordan (housing around 100,000 Syrian refugees).
~ Douglas Murray
As Christ teaches us the nature of abiding, we see that He is not contrasting abiding with not abiding. The contrast is rather between abiding temporarily and abiding permanently. In this fallen world, apostasy, church discipline, fruitlessness, rebuke, and scandal are to be expected. The house of Christ still has slaves and sons, and we should not be surprised when the differences between them become manifest.
~ Douglas Wilson
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
~ Marcus Aurelius
(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.
~ Charles Stanley
Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.
~ Doug Stanhope
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
~ Lucretius
Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.
~ Rick Warren
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.
~ Reginald Horace Blyth
Everything in life is elusive.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.
~ Craig Groeschel
Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government.
~ Jim Murphy
two a penny within months of
~ Jo Beverley
She lived among us for a while And brought joy where she went. We thought she was a gift of God But learned she was but lent.
~ Joan W. Blos
El amor es una epidemia que se acaba con el tiempo.
~ Joaquín Sabina
A man is lent, not given, life.
~ Ann Fairbairn
love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.
~ Ann Hood
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
~ Anne Carson
Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.
~ Anne Enright
Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
~ Heinrich Boll