Temporary Quotations

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

I'm definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I'm very thankful for the opportunities that I've been able to experience, but I keep it all in check and don't let it consume me.

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

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.

Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

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

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

The possibility of an interim and temporary accord is under consideration.

We are pleased to report that all employees and staff are safe and that service to our clients has not been affected as the result of the tornado -- all systems are up and running and all files remain secure. We will continue to offer the same level of service to our clients during our temporary relocation.

There is no question that the fourth quarter was a bummer, even with that upward revision. Even if we blame temporary factors, it was a one-quarter bust.

There is no question that the exploitation of works will increasingly be through the creation of digital temporary copies, as opposed to the creation of permanent copies.

While management will likely continue to guide conservatively, we expect 2006 outlook will be at least in-line with (analysts' consensus estimate of) $4.18. JC Penney's stepped up branding campaign, which kicks off March 2 and includes a temporary NY store, should drive some sales and more importantly position them for market share gains as industry rationalization frees up share.

When we commence construction, it will also be on a permanent facility, not a temporary structure.

We broke students into two groups. The first group could be accepted here as freshmen and full-time undergrads. The other 64 are enrolled in a continuing studies program, which they can do for a limited amount of time. They are people seeking temporary assistance.

We're going to make sure that victims of this disaster, whatever their economic circumstances, get the necessary financial assistance to ensure that they can obtain a temporary residence for the time being, ... These programs have been designed to give families the maximum amount of flexibility and freedom to decide where they want to relocate and what they want to do over the next few months.

U.S. tech workers, ... are increasingly nervous about employers' use of temporary non-U.S. citizens in tech jobs. The most anxiety comes from the most vulnerable.

We fear that if people huddle closely together in temporary shelters and crowded conditions, more measles cases could occur.

We're ready to start moving things onto the Internet, but I need some direction. If we move into a temporary facility we need to do it in the next two or three months. I need some guidance. I need to keep the records safe, support the courts and give employees a safe environment to work in.

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Workers in these temporary jobs will be involved in the provision of food, shelter and other services to fellow Mississippians,

We're satisfied with it. It's a temporary solution for a year. It will give us some time while the township works things out.

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

We were asked if there were any drug-related side-effects, and this was not one of them. The temporary swollen glands in the monkeys were not un-foreseen.

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

This will probably just be a temporary disruption of activity. My guess is that, by Monday, everything should be back to normal. If things are not coming around by Monday, then we will have to worry about it.

What we're doing may be a temporary fix for the summer. We'll have to monitor it throughout the summer to see how well the rocks hold in higher flows and decide if we need to grout it.

We have a real concern right now with the assistance we're getting from FEMA on temporary housing.

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

When I came to the course, there were three temporary greens, 11, 13 and 18. In the interview, they asked if 18 would be playable by the end of the season. I said, absolutely.

We need to make sure someone is taking care of them, so they are not there alone. It is really providing temporary shelter for these children until their parents can find them.

We need to make legislators aware of declining enrollment so that they can look at how districts are funded and give some temporary relief.

We're glad to have them, but you can't build up your services based on temporary residents. You need to provide services, but you don't built up a long-term strategy serving the National Guard.

Make no mistake. We are here to stay, ... We are not temporary or interim leaders. After Saddam's topple, you have to live with these faces, whether you like them or you dislike them.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Many of these kids just have nowhere to go. This program provides them with temporary shelter until we can work things out among the family. It's all about opening the lines of communication through different counseling methods and getting them back home.

Selling it is only a temporary solution. What do we do for money for the kids once we sell the land?

Significant as it was, it was a temporary setback. We do believe that in the medium-to long-term we are on track to get to our objectives in the United States.

She and her mother took a fellow who was in cardiac arrest and gave him what appears to be a temporary new lease on life.

Motorists might see prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause.

Motorists might seen prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause. Upward pressure on gas prices will increase in February due to reduced production as refineries rush to finish the changeover from producing winter grade to summer grade fuel before the March 1 deadline.

Moving people out of the shelters and into temporary housing has been a source of frustration for us. It is a monumental effort that FEMA has undertaken, and we understand that effort is going to take time, but we had hoped it would come about quicker than it has.

My intention is that in the course of the next week or two you will see that far from being an impasse, that this short and temporary suspension will have been a platform for us to go forward.

One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies were using their help.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.

More important than this temporary alignment is the fact that the indicators are going in the same direction and have been doing so for several months. The Katrina period seems to have been the low point and we interpret the trend as the slow accommodation to the reality of higher oil prices. We also like seeing user expectations in line with vendor revenue forecasts.

Money market and checking account rates are more closely tied to Fed activity. Some banks are offering higher interest rates on checking and money market accounts, but these are promotional rates that are temporary and do not affect the core product interest rate.

New Orleans is, of course, our next thrust, and we're going to have to have to staff recovery efforts down there, but it'll be a different kind of recovery effort, ... We'll be supporting the EOC in Baton Rouge with temporary communications until the National Guard can get in.

Obviously, some temporary stuff would have been pulled out, but anything permanent would have stayed, and we would have benefited from that.

My sense is what they'll do is rework the distribution of work. They've got a temporary problem until the sports utility vehicle (SUV) comes on board.

Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was African-American. And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the Garden District. This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarcely mentioned that fact.

On the Monday after Rita, we were short 30 temporary laborers,

One of the reasons the Council originally objected to the Landmark project was that the applicant did not provide a shoring plan indicating how the hillside would be stabilized during the excavation. A shoring plan is still not available. If they start excavating they could trigger a slide. With temporary shoring we could at least know how they are going to hold that hill up there.

If we don't provide that (seamless transition) in a temporary facility or whatever, you may have some parents who are reluctant to put their children in the charter middle school if they have to go ahead and transfer back to the regular public school system.

I don't know a whole lot of college graduates who are going to work a $10 temporary job. I know that they have to find people somewhere to grade them, but I would certainly hope that they would find professional readers, not just kids out of college that are looking for something to do.

I couldn't hear anything because my ears had been blasted, ... I had temporary hearing loss. The tent was full of smoke and dust. Of course Jim was screaming in pain and bleeding. And I reached for my vest to throw over him to protect him from what else was going to happen.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director. I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career goes, I always felt, as an actor, that it was something that would just be a temporary thing that would get me to what I wanted to do next. That's what my acting did.

I believe that this rule will benefit many providers by making it easier to file the proper paperwork when hiring temporary employees.

But we can't have land invasions, we can't allow that. We will provide temporary shelter while we wait for a long term solution. But this (relocation) is the start of that long term solution.

Business owners have been burned by the recession in the past, so they'll take on some temporary staff and then convert them to full time when they know the recovery is for real.

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last cool project.

I can't really be any happier with the way things are going. I've played four NHL games in my career and I'm getting ice time. That's the most reward a player can get from a coach. Hopefully this is just a temporary thing.

If Arkansas has enough damage, it will become a federal disaster area, and the homeowners can get more money when it comes to temporary housing assistance. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management may offer only three months, while FEMA could possibly give six months. It will be more money for the families to get them get back on their feet.

For whatever reason, the pricing departments at the headquarters of these oil companies felt like there was a profit-taking situation. More than likely, it's a temporary situation.

If the temporary visas can be reviewed only after three years, then our boycott will also be lifted only after three years.

If the alternative to a temporary race segregation is a riot, where people get hurt, then yeah, you can do that.

If someone offers you an easy solution, your temporary problem has been solved. But has your long-term problem been solved? You're always going to need that other shelter.

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

There is a high probability that some legal action will be pursued. Perhaps a temporary restraining order to stop the implementation and then broader legal action after that.

The people who are in these temporary buildings desperately need better facilities.

What is being done is fairly massive. There will be temporary field offices in various areas around the disaster zone, ... We'll be trying to get word to refugees that are staying in shelters that they can visit or call these temporary field offices to get their checks. As you can imagine, it's a rather difficult proposition to get that information out to the people who need it.

We are firmly committed to helping Mauritius overcome this temporary phase and India can be a partner and can fully share its experiences, particularly in the areas of sugar and textile with you.

Having been laying still for so many hours and being poorly hydrated for that period of time has resulted in some kidney dysfunction. We assume that will be a temporary phenomenon while the kidneys recover.

Going into this week, there were a lot of expectations that the tech stocks would deliver good numbers. As those numbers come out it's not surprising that there would be some profit taking. It's a temporary phenomenon.

Going forward, is there still adjustment in the pipeline? I think there is. The household savings rate is low, and debt growth has accelerated. That means that consumer spending growth is going to be slow. In the next 12 months, the economy is going to do well, but it will be a temporary acceleration rather than the beginning of a normal recovery.

Holly's Law is a very modest bill. It provides only for temporary suspension of the Food and Drug Administration's approval of RU-486 so the comptroller general can review that agency's adherence to statutory mandates in its process for approving the drug.

There are obvious alternatives if we are going to move to another stadium on a temporary basis. There is Easter Road, Dunfermline's ground and Murrayfield but we will discuss the matter with the fans and the shareholders before anything happens. We've not entered into any formal talks with the officials at these grounds because it's far too early to do that.

We may want to wait for another month or so to be sure that such gains were truly reflective of a upward trend and not just a possible distortion arising from the temporary 'hurricane-related' loss of many lower-paying service sector jobs,

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

We look at this as a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.