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

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
Edward de Bono

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.
Martin Feldstein

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
Ric Keller

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Anthony Eden