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Quotes About Temporary

If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him
~ Shannon Stacey
And a six-week cap on the relationship was perfect. He could enjoy the getting-to-know-you sex and the know-you-well-enough-to-push-the-right-buttons sex, but be gone before the I'm-falling-in-love-with-you-Mitch sex.
~ Shannon Stacey
That part won't be hard at all; It's easy to love something when you know it's only for a finite amount of time.
~ Shari Goldhagen
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
~ Neil Young
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.
~ John C. Reilly
Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
~ Martina Boone
Time and need compels to trust strangers even for a specific time
~ Tehreem Rahat
Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.
~ Michael Caine
Forever is not granted to any of us," the duchess said. "Even tomorrow is not granted as by right. Any of us can go at any moment.
~ Mary Balogh
I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
~ Mary Oliver
firms are temporary aggregations of people to help them do their producing in such a way as to help others do their consuming.
~ Matt Ridley
abeyance. "Is there
~ Ayn Rand
The excuse, given in all such cases, is that the "compromise" is only temporary and that one will reclaim one's integrity at some indeterminate future date. But one cannot correct a husband's or wife's irrationality by giving in to it and encouraging it to grow. One cannot achieve the victory of one's ideas by helping to propagate their opposite.
~ Ayn Rand
Illinois preschoolers were temporarily saved from the debilitating effects of cereal and milk.
~ Barack Obama
A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Within Judaism we find divine beings who temporarily become human, semidivine beings who are born of the union of a divine being and a mortal, and humans who are, or who become, divine.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
According to the Bolshevik decree, the repressions were "of a temporary nature and will be removed by a special degree just as soon as normal conditions are reestablished," but, of course, "normal" conditions never returned.63
~ Stephen Kotkin
Urgency addiction is a self-destructive behavior that temporarily fills the void created by unmet needs.
~ Stephen R. Covey
He may have a permanently temporary attitude toward home base; this can be reflected by sublets or temporary leases, or by a serious reluctance to commit himself to buying furniture.
~ Steven Carter
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence. Death becomes a mere rite of passage, like puberty or a midlife crisis.
~ Steven Pinker
I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
~ Shania Twain
I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
~ Rudyard Kipling