Quotes About Durable

#1. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

Walter Raleigh

#2. In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated.

Eric Hoffer

#3. Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

Barack Obama

#5. The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Charles Babbage

#6. It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all
the universe
that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each
hour, each moment, there is change.

Brian Herbert

#7. Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

Justin Cronin

#8. Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

Larry Constantine

#9. durable. Guidelines to start the MPS portrait In this session we start with the first step: collecting data from others. From this range of feedback you will learn important things about yourself: The responses from your contacts will

Juan Humberto Young

#10. Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

Anthony Shadid

#12. What is the half-life of information? Does its rate of decay correlate with the medium that conveys it? Pixels need power. Paper is unstable in fire and flood. Letters carved in stone are more durable, although not so easily distributed, but inertia can be a good thing.

Ruth Ozeki

#13. You are always laughing at the wrong moment; you are considered cruel and heartless when in reality you are only tough and durable. But if you would laugh when others laugh and weep when they weep then you must be prepared to die as they die and live as they live.

Henry Miller

#14. Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.

William J. Clinton

#15. As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Oscar Wilde

#17. I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence.

Ariel Sharon

#18. Luxuries and indulgences were distractions from true greatness, tawdry and ephemeral baubles that dissipated energy that could be directed toward more meaningful and durable accomplishments in the world around him.

Ramez Naam

#19. Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

Kenneth Clark

#20. Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.

Robert Muller

#21. To a person who loves, is not absence the most certain, the most effective, the most durable, the most indestructible, the most faithful of presences?

Marcel Proust

#22. To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

Solon

#23. I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#24. Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

Lionel Shriver

#25. Storyboarded by the West Coast's finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes - God.

Michael Marshall Smith

#26. The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#27. O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.

Isaac Ambrose

#28. Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

#29. A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Haig

#30. Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

Benigno Aquino III

#31. This would require an e-book reader that is as easy to read as a traditional book, durable to abuse as much as we abuse paperbacks and cheap enough that when you lose it, you can buy another one

John Scalzi

#32. It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable - like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Jane Hamilton

#33. The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

Arthur Henderson

#34. [T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government ... and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

Noah Webster

#35. I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only immortality that you and I may share, my Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov

#36. So, over the course of the last year, I've seen Lola blossom from a delicate flower into a durable weed!

Belle Aurora

#37. Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool ...

Paul Gauguin

#38. Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life ... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Gaston Bachelard

#39. The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

#40. Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is calm and tranquil, and it is durable, lasting whole days and nights, months; years, perhaps. It is not mortal. It strikes at the eyes, only the eyes.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#41. To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Ludwig Von Mises

#42. Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

Saul Bellow

#43. It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#44. I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

Horace

#45. Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

Mariella Frostrup

#46. That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#47. All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

Aldo Leopold

#48. In itself it is nothing. Nothing but a book: parchment, colouring, ink. Yet the most perishable material is at the same time the most durable substance in the world ...

Lion Feuchtwanger

#49. Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

Willy Brandt

#50. A book is more durable than a man.

Michael Grumley

#51. I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee ... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

Gavyn Davies

#52. The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#53. People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

Benjamin Graham

#54. Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

Charles Eastman

#55. Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.

Erica Jong

#56. The great event on Calvary ... is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

Martin Luther

#57. It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.

Theodore Roszak

#58. The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

Joseph Joubert

#59. Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

Gore Vidal

#60. I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#61. People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Bertolt Brecht

#62. Every ruin gives you a clear message: Even your most durable things will turn into ruins!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.

Bjorn Lomborg

#64. Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Thomas Overbury

#65. The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

Isamu Noguchi

#66. sustained high gross profit margins relative to industry peers tends to indicate durable competitive advantage. Zeroing

Lawrence A. Cunningham

#67. Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

Ariel Sharon

#68. Time, though in Eternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.

John Milton

#69. I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

Czeslaw Milosz

#70. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

#71. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

Jaden Smith

#72. It is in the giving up of self that human beings can find the most ecstatic and lasting, solid, durable joy of life. And it is death that provides life with all its meaning. This "secret" is the central wisdom of religion. The process of giving up the self (which is

M. Scott Peck

#73. years, making it the most durable

Yuval Noah Harari

#74. The other naturally occurring viruses, like ebola, are not durable enough to generate a runaway epidemic.

Martin J. Rees

#75. In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

Jonathan Nolan

#76. when you stay with something instead of walking away, it builds something new inside of you, something solid and weighty, something durable. But you do have to wait for it. You have to earn it the hard way.

Shauna Niequist

#77. A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.

James Forrestal

#78. Malcolm Price embodies all that is Welsh, aside from the green valleys and male voice choirs. The will to win against insurmountable odds is a penchant of the Welsh, put this with a propensity to never say 'die' and that is what makes the Welsh so durable.

Stephen Richards

#79. When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#80. Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. Hereby,

Benjamin Franklin

#81. [we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.
[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.

James Branch Cabell

#82. I find this miraculous. I never cease to wonder at it. That words are more durable than anything ...

Penelope Lively

#83. Here was someone you simply knew you could trust, who might nag or infuriate or sulk, but whose greatest charm lay on the most durable of virtues: loyalty.

Julia Glass

#84. No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Annie Besant

#85. The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

Raymond Chandler

#86. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#87. The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#88. Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Joseph Addison

#89. The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Horace

#90. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.

C.S. Lewis

#91. All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

Fisher Ames

#92. That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

#93. As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Virginia Postrel

#94. There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

Queen Elizabeth II

#95. I'm pretty durable, but concrete and I have faced off before. While I didn't die, I wouldn't say I won, either.

Eliza Crewe

#96. A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Francis Bacon

#97. Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.

James Chiles

#98. What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

John C. Calhoun

#99. A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

Jill Lepore

#100. I've fixed my feelings into durable words
when they could have been spent on tenderness

BORGES JORGE LUIS