Temporary Quotes - Page 17

• No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Soldier, Victory, Citizens

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Death, Years, Enemy

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• All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Matter, Facts

  "America Abroad". content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

  Margaret Fuller

  Friends, Stars, Heart

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• Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

  Evel Knievel

  Pain, Scar, Bones

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• The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Heart, Character, Long

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.134, UPNE

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• Temporary anger is no need to make permanent mistakes.

  Jessica Aguilar

  Mistake, Mma, Needs

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• Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Meals, Caviar, Fame

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• Diets are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

  Roseanne Barr

  Problem, Diets, Solutions

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Real, Men, May

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.80

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• The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, California, Ease

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.41, Zola Books

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• every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.

  Hannah Arendt

  Power, Political, Expansion

  Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.198, Penguin UK

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• All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.

  Milton Friedman

  Couple, People, Progress

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• Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Expression, Public Opinion

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.332

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• The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spiritual, Law, Space

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Communication, Army, Order

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

  Carlos Slim

  People, World, Care

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• The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

  William Gurnall

  Storm, May

  William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.168, Moody Publishers

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• But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Discovery, Abandoned, Made

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• Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

  T. D. Jakes

  Decision, Storm, Matter

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• She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

  Frank Zappa

  Political, Drug, Moral

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.

  Herman Bavinck

  Christian, Lying, Night

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• Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Lasts, Program

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