Permanent Quotes

1073 Permanent quotes by 810 unique authors

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is… — Hal Borland
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. — Mark Twain
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every… — George Washington
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not… — Alexander Hamilton
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on… — Alexander Hamilton
But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well… — James Madison
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons… — Samuel Johnson
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a… — Alexander Hamilton
The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do… — Gary Talley
Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google… — Tim Ferriss
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it… — Andrew Solomon
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on… — William DeWitt Hyde
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on… — Clifton Fadiman
This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere.… — Anna Kendrick
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. — Barack Obama
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution… — Werner Herzog
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company — Tony Randall
People are hungering for property — for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or… — Louis O. Kelso
My body has changed and it will continue change in the future — that is natural for anyone. What matters to me most is that… — Crystal Renn
I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to wait for the… — Unknown Author
The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have… — Sunderlal Bahuguna
Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings,… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. — Julian Barnes

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