Quotes with temporary

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  • Lord George Byron My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Roger Staubach Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
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  • Vince Lombardi Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Napoleon Hill Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Walter Bagehot So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Billy Sunday They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a both, but it does you good.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Benjamin Franklin They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bob Schieffer They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bo Bennett Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan 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
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Anthony Eden You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
    Anthony Eden
    British politician (1897 - 1977)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Napoleon Hill Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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