Temporary Quotes - Page 28

• but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

  Rachel Caine

  Optimism, Drug, Sometimes

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Windfall”, p.173, Allison & Busby

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• And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

  Rachel Vincent

  Crazy, Real, Temporary Insanity

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.159, MIRA

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• We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Running, Lakes, Ducks

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• No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.

  Wendy Starland

  Feelings, Matter, Circumstances

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• A lot of opportunities in life tend to last a short while, due to some temporary inefficiency... For each of us, really good investment opportunities aren't going to come along too often and won't last too long, so you've got to be ready to act and have a prepared mind.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Long, Mind

  Charlie Munger's investment advice at the 2003 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 7, 2003.

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• Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Goal, Joy, Fleeting

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• As we have seen after every other [Donald] Trump controversy, this one only increased their enthusiasm for him. His supporters thought the idea of a temporary halt in Muslims coming to the U.S. was a common sense proposal in a time of great fear about terrorism.

  Steve Inskeep

  Ideas, Common Sense, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die!

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Parent, Remember

  "The Drew Carey Show". TV Series, www.imdb.com. September 13, 1995.

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• Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

  Randy Alcorn

  Opportunity, Rewards, Incredibles

  Randy Alcorn (2013). “The Law of Rewards: Giving what you can't keep to gain what you can't lose.”, p.21, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Coolness is temporary. You can't capture it or create it, it has to be discovered. It has to do with the people that are in a place, not with monuments or institutions. It's a momentary conjunction of personalities.

  Lawrence Wright

  People, Personality, Institutions

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• If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Self, Long

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• I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Night, Might, Pillow

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• Donald Trump has opened [ politically correct enforcement] up wide. He`s made a very bold statement and he`s backed it back just a little bit when he said it is temporary.

  Ted Cruz

  Enforcement, Littles, Made

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career goes, I always felt, as an actor, that it was something that would just be a temporary thing that would get me to what I wanted to do next. That's what my acting did. I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

  Steve Antin

  Careers, Acting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer one. It is wrong to assume that everything ends with death; what ends is only the temporary conditions in which people have lived on earth.

  Peter Deunov

  People, Degrees, Earth

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• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Self, Age, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.247, North Atlantic Books

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• It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

  Alfie Kohn

  Punishment, People, Age

  "Humiliating Children In Public: A New Parenting Trend?" by Lisa Belkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2012.

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• We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Long, Mind

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• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Men, Self

  Napoleon Hill (1983). “Grow rich!--: with peace of mind”, Fawcett Books

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• I don't pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there'll be slack times in my career. It's unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.

  Lea Seydoux

  Jobs, Careers, One Day

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• Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

  Doug Stanhope

  Boring, Reason

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Giving, Important, Events

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• I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Cities, Identity, Foundation

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• I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Art, Giving, Judging

  "Scenari urbani". Interview with Daniele Lisi, www.landscapestories.net.

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• It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always in mind the immediate and temporary effects of particular changes, whereas I put these effects quite aside, and fix my whole attention on the long-term effects that will result from them.

  David Ricardo

  Differences, Long, Mind

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