Durable Quotes

129 quotes by 111 authors

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the… — Stephen Leacock
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. — C.S. Lewis
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding… — John McCain
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. — Ludwig von Mises
The word of man is the most durable of all material. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never… — Ariel Sharon
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980,… — George Will
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation… — Jorge Luis Borges
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a… — Alberto Manguel
Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care?… — Kurt Vonnegut
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you… — Vladimir Nabokov
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,… — Vladimir Nabokov
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. — Raymond Chandler
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought,… — Jim Butcher
And the sound of your heart," he continued. "It's the most significant sound in my world. I'm so attuned to it now, I swear I… — Stephenie Meyer
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,… — Isabel Allende
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under… — Mary Wollstonecraft

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