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Quotes About Temporary

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments, they're the temporary happy by-products of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either
~ Carrie Fisher
This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home
~ Carrie Underwood
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
~ George Gordon Byron
These colonial governors, who were not always very educated or even very educable, could convince themselves that what was merely a temporary privilege should become a permanent right. (p.97)
~ George Lamming
I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
~ George R.R. Martin
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
~ Edwin Forrest
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.
~ Mike Todd
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
~ Franklin J. Dickman
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
~ Bible
We are here today and gone tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
To survive each passing day was my goal in life. At villages where we managed to find some happiness by being treated to food and fresh water, I knew it was temporary and that we were only passing through. So I couldn't bring myself to be completely happy. It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen.
~ Ishmael Beah
Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.
~ J.R. Ward
I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something like that. It's very much like holiday work as far as, okay, I do it, and I'm there for two weeks and hopefully am working really hard, and then it's done, and I kind of go back to what I was doing before.
~ Wyatt Cenac
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
~ Carl Sandburg
We must realize also that our so-called possessions are just toys which have been lent to us to play with for a little while. A
~ Swami Vivekananda
Luck never gives; it only lends.
~ Swedish Proverb
As we undergo maturation, we come to understand that our temporary fruit was never the endgame of an everlasting Master, but rather just a single step in the process of making eternal wine.
~ T.D. Jakes
Thoughts of the future and what it might hold threatened to crowd out her happiness, but she quickly reined in her thoughts and her fears. The good-byes here are only temporary. Someday there will be only together forevers.
~ Tamera Alexander
She would remind herself that in reality she was safe despite her fears, or that her hyperventilating was only a sign of temporary anxiety, not a sign that she would suffocate.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
Realizing that this problem is only temporary, like all things, and it too will pass, gives us more space to find ways to resolve it.
~ Tashi Tsering
I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily.
~ Ted Chiang
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
~ Ambrose Bierce