Permanent Quotes

1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. — Oscar Wilde
Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say… — Samuel R. Delany
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly,… — Jonathan Stroud
No changes are permanent, but change is. — Neil Peart
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written… — Jodi Picoult
Our permanent address is tommorrow. — Marshall McLuhan
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over… — Arundhati Roy
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. — Hunter S. Thompson
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. — J D Salinger
People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before… — George Carlin
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent. — Abbie Hoffman
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that,… — Ann Druyan
What is not hereditary cannot be permanent. — George Orwell
Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude. — James Van Praagh
The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality,… — Gilles Deleuze
I want to build some thing permanent. — Rick Riordan
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse,… — Muriel Barbery
How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens… — Christopher Hitchens
The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life. — Richard G. Scott
You think of me as a… living stone — hard and cold. That’s true. We are set the way we are, and it is very… — Stephenie Meyer
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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