Permanent Quotes

1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent… — David Levithan
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! — T. Harv Eker
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final. — Mike Ditka
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient… — Honore de Balzac
There is nothing permanent except change. — Heraclitus
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets. — Bernard Williams
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown
Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to… — Samuel Johnson
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would… — Marcel Proust
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational… — Mark Twain
I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love… — Rajneesh
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of… — Helen Keller
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. — Newt Gingrich
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. — Oscar Wilde
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women,… — Edward Said
We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never… — Mark Twain
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one? — Mark Twain
Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe… — Unknown Author
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom… — H. L. Mencken
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being… — Unknown Author
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the… — Henry George
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. — G. H. Hardy

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