Temporary Quotes

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. (Germaine Greer)
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. View quote
Lance Armstrong
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. View quote
Milton Friedman
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. View quote
Phil Donahue
The problem 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. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. (Ernest Hemingway)
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. View quote
Edward de Bono
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. View quote
Martin Luther
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. View quote
Zoe Saldana
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. View quote
Edmund Burke
When you save someone's life. It's always temporary, y'know? View quote
Matthew Stover
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Homosexuality appears as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. View quote
Michel Foucault
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. (Vince Lombardi)
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. View quote
Daniel Steele
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. View quote
Denis Waitley