Permanent Quotes

1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. — Germaine Greer
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. — Ursula K. Le Guin
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home. — Kenny Guinn
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint… — David Crystal
We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries. — Jim DeMint
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were… — Alan Dershowitz
Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life,… — Ronnie James Dio
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. — Mike Ditka
It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so… — Jesse Eisenberg
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change… — Alexander Hamilton
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are… — G. H. Hardy
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the… — Rutherford B. Hayes
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent… — Ernest Hemingway
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US. — Jim Henson
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. — Christopher Hitchens
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. — Ellsworth Huntington
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. — Samuel Johnson
I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship. — Kim Kardashian
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent. — Shahrukh Khan
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly… — Jeffrey Kluger

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