Quotes About Temporariness

#1. To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Carlos Castaneda

#2. For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.

Jenny Han

#3. I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short ... I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away.

Sophie Hannah

#4. the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,

Mohsin Hamid

#5. But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Gayle Forman

#6. The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.

Ravi Zacharias

#7. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

George Schaller

#8. I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

Susanna Clarke

#9. Having enough for now, while not harming the future.

Adam Werbach

#10. We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play.

Grigor Dimitrov

#11. Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes ... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.

Arshile Gorky

#12. We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

Rupert Murdoch

#13. A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#14. Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#15. Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

Neil Gaiman