Durable Quotes
129 quotes by 111 authors
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Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
— Max Baucus
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do…
— Annie Besant
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you…
— George Mikes
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People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
— Bertolt Brecht
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most…
— Montgomery Schuyler
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Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system…
— Willy Brandt
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The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off…
— Raymond Chandler
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through…
— Benjamin Rush
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The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in…
— Martin Luther
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual…
— Susan Sontag
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[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am…
— Noah Webster
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Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than…
— Madeleine Albright
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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
— James Madison
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That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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