Quotes About Temporary

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

Margaret really messes up his head. When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override. But one thing he learned in Hawaii was that a Manual Override is unfortunately not the same as the real thing. The effect wears off too soon.

Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

she'd learned long time ago that nothing wonderful lasted forever

He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time.

Byerozkin knew very well that the man with no quiet at the bottom of his soul was unable to endure for long, however courageous he might be in combat. He thought of fear or cowardice, on the other hand, as something temporary, something that could be cured as easily as a cold.

Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant—and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civilian.

hope felt like a borrowed sweater that didn't quite fit.

Jie kariauja. Laikas buvo prabanga, kuria dabar jau niekas negal?jo girtis. Rytojus atrod? toks pat laikinas, kaip bu?inys tamsoje.

Live in the all,' " Melville wrote to Hawthorne. What nonsense!… This "all" feeling…there is some truth in. You must often have felt it, lying on the grass on a warm summer's day. Your legs seem to send out shoots into the earth. Your hair feels like leaves upon your head. This is the all feeling. But what plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Man's life is short and transitory because they devote most of their lives also to what is transient and momentary.

All in fashion passes.

Life gives us nothing outright. It only lends. Nothing is ours to keep.

It had been fun, yes, and had provided a fleeting sense of happiness. Like a miniature vacation from the sorrow.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly.

There were in fact bugs," he recalls, "But the essential difference was in the obviousness of bugs, the repeatability of bugs, and potential for fixing bugs oneself. In this environment, bugs were only temporary delays on a steady road towards excellence and stability.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

It wouldn't last, of course. I had no illusions on that score. But while it did, I meant to relish every moment of the respite.

So the present enmity between the nations of this area has got to be considered a temporary interruption of an historic process, and I have found that where temporary interruptions go against the grain of history they do not long endure.

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

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.