Top 100 Permanently Quotes
#1. Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.
Joan Rivers
#2. Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it's like - you don't actually want to... You're in control of your own life. And yet you act like you're permanently buffeted by events outside your control.
Jojo Moyes
#3. There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
Jim Clifton
#4. Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.
Jamais Cascio
#5. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.
Fiona Thrust
#6. There's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul ...
John Geddes
#7. As if sustained and too-direct contact with time's raw passage could scar the nerves permanently, like staring at the sun.
Jonathan Franzen
#8. I can reprint it. And ... I was thinking about staying in Virginia permanently after Ellie is back on her feet."
The remorse fled quickly. "Over my dead body."
"Yeah, I thought you'd say that.
Samantha Young
#9. I felt my heart expanding, making room for him to movie in permanently.
Cecily White
#10. The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
Ben Shapiro
#11. What the hell's wrong with you? You look like you're about to have a seizure." - Hawk
"If your halo shines any brighter, it's going to permanently damage my retinas." - Jace
Suzannah Daniels
#12. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#13. Regretfully, I have decided that if the Saint Saga must remain permanently in print in its entirety, then it can only do so in its original form.
Leslie Charteris
#14. The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.
Robin Sharma
#15. I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or may not be permanently involved.
Tyler Christopher
#16. He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict. And he was too moronic to be properly self-loathing
so it was my duty to loathe him instead.
Jonathan Lethem
#17. The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.
John Mortimer
#18. My life was full of drama, with the highs and lows of Tyler's daily mood swings and my private innuendos with Vandenberg. There'd never been a movie made that could permanently shift my mood away from my disappointment with myself.
J.C. Patrick
#19. Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.
Mary Lou Retton
#20. Where oppression does not completely and permanently break the spirit, has it not a natural tendency to produce retaliatory pride and contempt?
C.S. Lewis
#21. 1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.
Jean Ziegler
#22. He is also a keen cook, gardener and birder. He has no middle fingers on one hand, so he can't swear but is permanently doing the heavy metal sign.
Alan Partridge
#23. You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?"
"Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like ... slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.
Richelle Mead
#24. Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war
Bob Marley
#25. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.
J.D. Salinger
#26. A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.
John Edensor Littlewood
#27. Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Franz Kafka
#28. Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.
Charles Stanley
#29. the knowledge, tastes, and social accomplishments of 13-year-olds are often the same as those of 28-year-olds. Adolescents are precociously adult; adults are permanently adolescent.
Theodore Dalrymple
#30. I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
Joe Murray
#31. Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.
Maya Banks
#32. The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
Charles Lindbergh
#33. The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude ...
Sara Coleridge
#34. Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.
Lewis Thomas
#35. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle.
#36. You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.
Peter J. Daniels
#37. Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.
Kathleen Peacock
#38. The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.
Stephen Kinzer
#39. One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.
A.M. Riley
#40. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#41. Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if the original person knew about the alters and felt their pain, they would either go crazy and be hospitalized permanently, or would die.
Eve N. Adams
#42. Gu himself presides over the room- a genial, noisy man with the widest, jauntiest, must luxuriant and ambitious mustache I have ever seen, permanently fighting gravity and the razor in its attempts to make contact with Gu's eyebrows.
Peter Mayle
#43. It worried me that perhaps my voice was permanently damaged. I couldn't stand to think that was the case. I would be Sang, the girl with nothing to say, and no voice to say it.
C.L.Stone
#44. I would love to shoot in San Francisco permanently. It would be such a joy to come back home full circle.
Michael Trucco
#45. Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
Christina Romer
#46. What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?
Brandon Sanderson
#47. I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.
Ronda Rousey
#48. His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.
William Gibson
#49. If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right.
Howard W. Hunter
#50. If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.
Jane Addams
#51. And so Jefferson wrote the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which organized the new territories of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin so that slavery would be permanently illegal there.
Allen C. Guelzo
#52. The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
John Cage
#53. Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.
Regis Philbin
#54. One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
Bernard DeVoto
#55. I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.
Alberto Fujimori
#56. You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom
#57. Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
Brad Pitt
#58. I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.
Britt Robertson
#59. The feeling, all encompassing, safe and warm like a blanket permanently draped over her shoulders, follows her around. She takes it into the shower, to meals with her mother and sister, to work as she reads out the news script, her voice never faltering.
Zainab Omaki
#60. I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.
Brian Greene
#61. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
Alan W. Watts
#62. But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.
Margaret Atwood
#63. As you may know, when someone endures a horrific event like a car accident or a sexual assault, the long-term memories can be permanently debilitating.
Dan Brown
#64. Many succeed momentarily by what they know; Some succeed temporarily by what they do; but Few succeed permanently by what they are.
John C. Maxwell
#65. The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
Buzz Aldrin
#66. It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul
#67. My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.
Permanently.
Brandon Sanderson
#68. There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
Northrop Frye
#69. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
Charles Brent
#70. But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.
Stefan Zweig
#71. Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?
Richard Dawkins
#72. Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap.
Auliq Ice
#73. Take the advice I sometimes have to give to myself: Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off.
Karen Ehman
#74. Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.
Mary Quant
#75. We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
Kit Bond
#76. Yeah, probably. Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow.
J.D. Robb
#77. We have to edge them out of the rankings. That will damage their futures. Permanently.
Veronica Roth
#78. We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A.S. Byatt
#79. We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives ... then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. You are the world's most perfect woman. All other women are irrelevant. Permanently. No Botox or implants will be required.
Graeme Simsion
#81. Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
#82. She didn't want anyone reading her impermanent thoughts after she had permanently left the planet.
Wendy Wunder
#83. Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery.
Valeria Luiselli
#84. But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#85. E-mail allowed messages to be sent from one person to another, but did not form a space in which information could permanently exists and be referred to.
Tim Berners-Lee
#86. When Autumn was born, it was as if she recognized her, as if she'd always known that it would be her, this little person who had come to live with her and reside permanently in her heart. It was a love unlike any other: fierce and powerful.
Sanjida Kay
#88. For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite in those holes, and detonate that dynamite, and seal that leak. Seal it permanently.
Phil Gingrey
#89. Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
Adrien Brody
#90. America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
P. J. O'Rourke
#91. I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage - not like the marriage you have with Cam - until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
Lisa Kleypas
#92. After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
#93. As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable.
Pema Chodron
#94. Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
#95. If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
George Orwell
#96. I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell.
John Marsden
#97. But penetration was a big deal. They protected their anuses the way girls protected their hymen in high school, believing that allowing anything beyond their holy gates would permanently corrupt them.
Maggie Young
#98. No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.
Karl Taylor Compton
#99. Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
Booth Tarkington
#100. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.
Richard Russo
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