Quotes About Temporary People

#1. Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.

Naomi Watts

#2. We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

Pope Francis

#3. People can temporary influence your decisions. But you have the ultimate power to make the best choice.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Suzanne Collins

#5. Even when people aren't suffering from illness or aging, our unfulfilled cravings and the cessation of temporary pleasures, as well as the dissonance between our expectations and reality, lead to dukkha.

Sara Wilson

#6. When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs - even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.

Steven D. Levitt

#7. It was just another temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people to communicate

Rob Sheffield

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Barbara Jordan

#11. Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

John Ortberg

#12. Oh, it was easy to see why people had whirlwind shipboard romances, for it was a temporary journey into fantasy, where dreams could come true
if only for the duration of the cruise.

Patricia Hagan

#13. So many crucial events take place behind people's backs, when they aren't in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. And the temporary oblivion of sex.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

Richard V. Allen

#15. Everything has been planned. The ascent will be completed in two days' time. He will climb another one hundred floors today. Another hundred the next day. He does not want to take the lift. The rush of life causes people to drown in the temporary. He wishes to dip into eternity before he leaves.

Isa Kamari

#16. President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

William L. Jenkins

#17. Our world is full of temporary promises and guile. It is necessarily so. We are not evil people, this is just how we survive. There are only a few steps that separate success from failure. Understand this and you will not suffer from disillusionment as often as I did.

Amy Tan

#18. For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.

Emma Donoghue

#19. People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

Christabel Pankhurst

#20. It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people to communicate by bombarding each other with pitiful cultural artifacts that in a saner world would be forgotten before they even happened.

Rob Sheffield

#21. People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. I teach at Caltech and oversee a research laboratory there. In general, I find that the majority of young people are excited by the prospects of research, but they soon discover that in the current market, many doctorate-level scientists are holding temporary positions or are unemployed.

Ahmed Zewail

#23. Someone's war was slashing apart his delicate tapestry of companions. I was Odysseus, I understood the shifting and temporary vetoes of war. But he was a man who made friends with difficulty. He was a man who knew two or three people in his life, and they had turned out now to be the enemy.

Michael Ondaatje

#24. Everything is temporary; Emotions, thoughts, people and scenery. Do not become attached, just flow with it.

Anonymous

#25. We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.

Angela Merkel

#26. Phantasy provides a kind of temporary glue, which keeps people from falling apart through the production of illusions which enable them somehow to live with themselves.

Alexander Kluge

#27. That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

Margaret Atwood

#28. People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

Hannah Kent

#29. People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

Alfred North Whitehead

#30. Connections between people were temporary. Selfish. Opportunistic. Designed to perpetuate the species. "Love"
romantic love, anyway
was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.

Wendy Wunder

#31. The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#32. 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

#33. It is found in understanding that the only people who are doing God's will are those who have repented and been born again. God's grace is not a license to sin, but a temporary opportunity to repent and receive forgiveness.

David Servant

#34. I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people ... [a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,

Addy Stevens

#35. I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."
"To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

Rick Riordan

#36. Be like a star and shine, whether people care or do not care; the clouds are temporary, but your beauty is permanent.

M.F. Moonzajer

#37. When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.

Ronald Reagan

#38. Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

Michael Josephson

#39. Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

John Buchanan Robinson

#40. To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to attempt the imprisonment of a whole people; all such projects must be temporary and transient, and terminate in a catastrophe...

William Dalrymple

#41. This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will forever be recognizing people we have never met. But darkness and death are not the same. One is temporary, the other is not.

Jeanette Winterson

#42. Often, people get a temporary high, a fleeting sense of belonging and well-being from the illusion of strength that comes from attaching themselves to gurus, without realizing that the energy they associate with the so called holy person comes from within themselves.

Indu Muralidharan

#43. Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#44. When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function.

Eckhart Tolle

#45. The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

Nicholas Sparks

#46. What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary.

Rick Riordan

#47. For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#48. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be home to me. They must be hotel rooms.

David Levithan

#49. When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

Corinne Maier

#50. Sometime people are disempowered because they subconsciously identify themselves by their temporary circumstances instead of connecting with their innate value and truth.

Steve Maraboli

#51. People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

Benjamin Franklin

#52. The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

Ann Landers

#53. The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Alexander Hamilton

#54. You think that the mental anguish you are experiencing is a permanent condition, but for the vast majority of people it is only a temporary state. (But what if I'm special? What if I'm in the minority?)

Jenny Offill

#55. People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.

Hamza Yusuf

#56. 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

#57. Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

Frederick Lenz

#58. To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

Dorothy Koomson

#59. most people have better things to do than bother Sylvester, who has a history of permanent solutions to temporary annoyances.

Seanan McGuire

#60. Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love

Arsi Nami

#61. What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas.

Gordon Brown