Temporary Quotes - page 4

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. View quote
Lev Grossman
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. View quote
Denis Waitley
Pain is temporary, film is forever. View quote
Michael Fox
Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes. View quote
Bo Bennett
Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation. View quote
T.D. Jakes
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect. View quote
Flann O'Brien
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary. (Bob Schieffer)
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime. View quote
Alicia Machado
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. View quote
Gerrit Smith
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. View quote
Gail Sheehy
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. View quote
Howard Fineman
I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds. View quote
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. View quote
Ivor Novello
There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship. View quote
Jeremy Sisto
It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs. View quote
Jim Talent
Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place. View quote
John Schlesinger
Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end. (Keren Ann)
The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet. View quote
Luc Montagnier
Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more. View quote
Norm Dicks
It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth. View quote
Pete Wilson