Quotes About Temporary

For me, an image becomes meaningless inasmuch as it's always temporary. See, I've gone off on that tangent again, because you asked me about the image and all that. I just couldn't relate to all that side of things because, all that time, I was focused on trying to make the music sound half-way decent.

Act as though there is nothing wrong, and you can make it true, for a while.

But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only one minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until finally it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water.

Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

But while the universe as a whole, if indeed there is a whole universe, tends to run down, there are local enclaves whose direction seems opposed to that of the universe at large and in which there is a limited and temporary tendency for organization to increase. Life finds its home in some of these enclaves. It is with this point of view at its core that the new science of Cybernetics began its development.1

What are guards but villagers doing a tiresome, temporary duty?

HERE TODAY AND GONE TOMORROW. ?O USE TO MILK IS YOUR SORROW

La gloire, c'est comme la gouache, ça prend très vite puis ça part à la première goutte de pluie.

I always thought that whatever I had was temporary.

She had no idea how she was supposed to act, no idea how to feel. Julian had just made incredible love to her, but he wasn't *in love* with her. He'd stamped himself forever on her--body, heart, and soul--but a year from now he probably wouldn't remember who she was. He'd rocked her world, and yet he was only temporarily a part of it. What was a woman supposed to say? "Thanks, stud"?

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

Finally, the horizon stretched out infinitely before me and I felt utterly content looking at stars from afar and trying to make out all the variable, temporary, extinguished or faded stars. I was nothing in this infinity, but I could finally breathe.

Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

You see, the biggest protection against the kingdom of self is not a set of self-reformative defensive strategies. It's a heart that's so blown away by the right-here, right-now glories of the grace of Jesus Christ that we're not easily seduced by the lesser temporary glories of that claustrophobic kingdom of one, the kingdom of self.

What is will not last forever.

The concept of hero is very interesting to us,' Unlikely Worlds said. 'We are composites. No one component is worth more than any other. Your minds are in some ways similar. Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon?

glittery illusion where, like the facelifts of fading stars, nothing was permanent.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.