Quotes About Temporary Pleasure

#1. The course of this world is pervasive, keeping the captives quiet with the morphine of temporary pleasure at the expense of their eternal souls.

Gloria Furman

#2. If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

Augustus

#3. Temporary pleasure leads to permanent pain but temporary pain leads to permanent pleasure",

Soorej Gopi

#4. Stuff only allows you to rent temporary pleasure.

Linda Deir

#5. Fools are unable to comprehend the wisdom of asking God to manifest His desires into their own hearts. Instead, they ignore the tugs of the Holy Spirit on their heartstrings. They follow after their own yearnings, which only provide temporary pleasure, incomplete joy, and eventual damnation.

Cheryl Zelenka

#6. Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

John Piper

#7. I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

Norman Lock

#8. larger deduction if you deduct the expenses. However, this creates a lot more records because you will need receipts for all car-related expenses, including gas and maintenance.

Kevin Amolsch

#9. Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?

Frederick Lenz

#10. My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#12. Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

Don Davis

#13. Pleasure is not diversion but urgent life, a social order perceived as temporary.

Don DeLillo

#14. Do not be grateful for what I did, for you.
I just save a Sick Sheep.
I am glad, I am able to.
Religion of Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 11, 2016

Petra Hermans

#15. The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Dorothy Corkille Briggs

#16. A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

Grant Heslov

#17. But he felt the relief of being alone as well ... the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure.

Alan Hollinghurst

#18. You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

Orson Scott Card

#19. Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Peter Kreeft

#20. I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

James Tiptree Jr.

#21. Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others

Kevin Cashman