Temporary Quotes - Page 2

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

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

If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

It's just a temporary thing.

Everything is temporary if you give it enough time.

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.

Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

The box is only temporary.

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Everything can be temporary, except us.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.