Temporary Solutions Quotes

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'

Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.

All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?

Patched-up diplomatic solutions designed to answer the needs of the moment rarely last, and as they unravel they can actually make things worse.

In the end, all solutions are temporary.

Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

When I was a builder, I drove a blue van. It had a hole in the floor and I couldn't afford to fix it. I put a concrete block over the hole.

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.