Quotes About Temps

#1. I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

Phil Jones

#2. This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice.

Donald Trump

#3. Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!)

Rachel Harris

#4. I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most of them were some permutation on self-help. Going by how popular these books were and how often they were checked out, everyone in Bon Temps should have become perfect by now.

Charlaine Harris

#5. The fae were gone from America. Their departure point? Bon Temps, Louisiana. The woods behind my house.

Charlaine Harris

#6. Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
[Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps
Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#7. It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant)

Charles De Leusse

#8. That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

Rob Sheffield

#9. A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

Rebecca West

#10. Tanya Robinson is looking at the stage and thinking of the first concert she ever went to - it was the Temps - and how Bobby Wilson kissed her right in the middle of "My Girl." Very romantic.

Stephen King

#11. You seem to forget how I'm your employer and so acting like a mouthy bitch isn't a smart way to keep your job." "Your threat would be more convincing if you weren't stuck with temps who left post-it notes declaring you're the devil and she hopes you get sucked back into hell." Hayes

Bijou Hunter

#12. May my enemies tremble if they still have time! (Que mes ennemis soient tremblants - S'ils en ont encore le temps!)

Charles De Leusse

#13. Hous vivons aux temps des assassins - "we live in days of assassins" - where evil is sought in lives more than good in order to justify a world with a bad conscience.

Fulton J. Sheen

#14. Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough ...

Charlaine Harris

#15. 531he location of a temp agency-in inner-city immigrant neighborhoods, for example-influences not only the resulting population of temps but also the job opportunities that are available (or not) to workers54

Erin Hatton

#16. In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

Jill Lepore

#17. Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

Norman Macbeth

#18. We were beyond needing other people. Anyone else who happens on the both of us, they're just temps.

Courtney Summers

#19. Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

Kathleen Flinn

#20. L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Marcel Proust

#21. In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

James Surowiecki

#22. Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

Milan Kundera

#23. When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

Edouard Bourdet

#24. When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.

Nicole Krauss

#25. The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#26. I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. And you work like you're brand new, it doesn't work like that.It takes constant fixing.

Demi Lovato

#27. Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Booker T. Washington

#28. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

#29. If, in Him all things hold together, why would anyone ever want to be apart from Him?

Van Harden

#30. On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

Bob Hope

#31. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

Lewis H. Lapham

#32. I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Michael S. Harper

#33. Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.

Charles Lindbergh

#34. I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

Gilda Radner

#35. One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.

George Herbert

#36. There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.

Dante Alighieri

#37. There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs sometimes.

Toba Beta

#38. Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.

Jack Canfield