Permanent Quotes

1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining… — Martin Van Buren
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to… — Guy Finley
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington
Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships. — Gloria Gaither
Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you… — Subhas Chandra Bose
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self,… — Deepak Chopra
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath.… — Truman Capote
The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis… — Marcel Proust
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing… — Joyce Carol Oates
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and… — Joseph Story
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent… — Woodrow Wilson
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. — John Dewey
You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them. — Jane Roberts
Success is not permanent & failure is not fatal. — Mike Ditka
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls. — George Harrison
...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. — Charles Kettering
I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit… — Pope John Paul II
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and… — Ramana Maharshi
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that… — Ramana Maharshi
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. — Shirley MacLaine
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so… — Vera Brittain

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