Permanent Quotes

1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

We do not seek an agreement with the [Palestinian] Arabs in order to secure the peace. Of course we regard peace as an essential thing.… — David
Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright. — Frederick Lenz
One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and… — Joseph Jaworski
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh,… — Dorothy Parker
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did… — Joseph Plaskett
Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal. — Mike Ditka
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody… — Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. — Colleen Hoover
I'm permanent you can't erase me — Shawn Mendes
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place… — George Friedman
If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always… — Marcus Aurelius
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the… — Sufjan Stevens
There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single… — Pete Earley
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the… — John Dos Passos
The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of… — John Quincy Adams
I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent. — Judd Apatow
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. — Milton Friedman
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mahatma Gandhi
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is… — Mahatma Gandhi
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. — Henry Louis Gates
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of… — Jeff Greenfield

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