Permanent Quotes
1073 quotes by 810 authors
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Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain…
— Lembit Opik
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In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
— Bertrand Russell
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We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great,…
— Harold Nicolson
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Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.
— Milton S. Hershey
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Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
— Nhat Hanh
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Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be…
— Pieter Zeeman
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world…
— Aaron Siskind
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In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that…
— Pete Gill
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The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change…
— Aaron Siskind
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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the…
— Barack Obama
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as…
— Dick Thornburgh
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Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
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In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.
— Wiz Khalifa
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