Permanent Quotes
1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors
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For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process…
— Lynne Truss
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In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As…
— Paullina Simons
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Nothing is permanent but change.
— Elbert Hubbard
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With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part…
— Stephenie Meyer
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William: I just had the best idea ever. Let's give Maddox a ring. Paris: You mean propose to him? To grumpy ole Maddox? Willie, why…
— Gena Showalter
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It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside,…
— Ayn Rand
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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public…
— Oscar Wilde
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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
— William Shakespeare
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The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly…
— Eckhart Tolle
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We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware…
— Muriel Barbery
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Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may…
— Loretta Chase
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There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Travis: I didn’t know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month. Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so…
— Rick Riordan
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we…
— Tara Brach
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A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it…
— Kelly Link
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I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came…
— William Goldman
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is…
— Tim O'Brien
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Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch,…
— Emily Giffin
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No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.
— Justina Chen
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-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now
— E E Cummings
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In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get…
— Ann Patchett
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