Permanent Quotes

1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating. — Tom Daschle
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the… — John Gresham Machen
To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch. — Alan Watts
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. — Marya Mannes
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? — Robert Breault
If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem. — Robin Williams
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions… — Aldous Huxley
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. — Woodrow Wilson
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires,… — Gilbert Highet
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to… — Desmond Morris
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the… — Karl Abraham
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… — Florence King
I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have… — Pranab Mukherjee
So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible. — Hassan Nasrallah
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation… — Lucas Papademos
I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide… — Lucas Papademos
I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for… — Sean Parker
Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong. — Sly Stone
In a democracy, power is not permanent. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

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