Permanent Words Quotes

#1. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!

Richard Bach

#2. The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G.H. Hardy

#3. Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.

Alberto Alvaro Rios

#4. 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

#5. 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 always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Were you in love with him?'
'No, I was used to him.

Nora Roberts

#7. Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?"
My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

David Klass

#8. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.

Dexter Palmer

#9. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. ...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection and dream of perfection.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#12. It's only a story.' As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.

Keith Donohue

#13. Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby

Rob Sheffield

#14. The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

Ray Bradbury

#15. I learned then that it is more fulfilling to live one's life within a circle of love, interacting with loved ones to whole we are committed.

Bell Hooks

#16. (Dolores is the only person, other than Lord Voldemort, to leave a permanent physical scar on Harry, having forced him to cut the words 'I must not tell lies' on the back of his own hand during detention).

J.K. Rowling

#17. In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

Slavoj Zizek

#18. Words are real when we write them down. Taking the time to make them permanent makes them real.

Anna Todd

#19. That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.

Warren Ellis

#20. With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Aristotle.

#21. Everyone has their different tastes in regards to power, just like everyone has their different tastes for food or sex. My bread and butter is feeling like my mind and my ideas are shaping the world around me, which is of course why I bother writing the blog.

M.E. Thomas

#22. The ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Martha Gellhorn

#23. Keep smiling, I tell myself. It's all good. That's what my wrist tattoo says and you only ink permanent words on your person if you plan to live by them.

J.C. Lillis

#24. Words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

Vaddey Ratner

#25. It looked like a love poem, and I was jealous of whoever inspired the sort of devotion he must have felt to make those words so permanent

Tammara Webber

#26. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Chief Joseph

#27. He didn't have to remember, I remembered. I had bronzed the words. No, they were fragments of bullet, lodged in my heart. Whenever I moved a certain way they ached, so I learned a totally different way, a new walk, except it wasn't really a walk, it was more a permanent limp.

Thomas Rayfiel

#28. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Mahmoud Darwish

#29. My children will not remember the words of wisdom I've passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you've given. However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you've lived before them.

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

#30. Now the words are on paper and I can't take them back. Sometimes I hate ink. Its so permanent.

Jodi Meadows