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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Doing a TV show is like temporarily getting married to it.
Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
After being temporarily paralyzed, it puts a lot of things in perspective.
The law does not allow the FTC to just snap its fingers and temporarily block a merger.
I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.
Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.
Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really.
Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.
I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.
I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.
I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Violence never solves problems. It may cover them up temporarily because of the fear it is intended to inspire, but it is part of a cycle, not the end of a cycle.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I did have some secret abortions myself, which I repented from when I was born again in 1983. I drank the abortion Kool-Aid temporarily because I thought it was the answer.
I am very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorists influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.
'House of Cards' is full of hypocrites, some ashamed, many proud. There is no silver lining here, no appeal to a just system that is temporarily thwarted by corrupting forces.
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.
I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.
We have a rule: if you're killing off a series regular, you have to tell them first. If you're killing off a person temporarily, you have to warn them before the script comes out.
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
Where there is terrorist activity - Syria or Iraq - we will temporarily suspend immigration until we can establish a vetting system in which we can identify who people are who are coming in.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.
I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
The Bank of England's Carney is worried the shock of Britain's vote to leave the E.U. could cause households and businesses to temporarily halt spending, which could stop the economy and even spur a recession.
