Quotes About No Condition Is Permanent

#1. The Igbo culture says no condition is permanent. There is constant change in the world.

Chinua Achebe

#2. Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Larry Flynt

#3. If you are innately skeptical of other people's motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.

Marcus Buckingham

#4. There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

Roger Scruton

#5. A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

Toni Morrison

#7. Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

Lisa Unger

#8. You can't change the music of your soul.
- In Esquire, 1967

Katharine Hepburn

#9. When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

Aaron Siskind

#10. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#11. We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos ... Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

Lemony Snicket

#12. We've been working out of our tin can for half a decade. Nobody suggests moving into a brick-and-mortar office; nobody wants to peer through glass windows, in a building with a foundation, and admit that the insomnia emergency is now a permanent condition.

Karen Russell

#13. Today I, tomorrow you. But this need of help does not mean that the one is helpless, the other powerful. Helplesness is a transitory condition; the ability to stand and walk on one's own feet is the permanent and common one

Erich Fromm

#14. Imagine, for example, that you're walking into a church. To be admitted through the front door, you're forced to sign a waiver that says, "I'm a sinner and by stepping into the room today I acknowledge that fact.

John Zahl

#15. Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.

Megan Smith

#16. Trotsky's view that the gap between aspiration and achievement will be a permanent feature of human life, so that tragedy will be permanently relevant to the contemporary human experience, seems far more faithful to Marx's view ...

Alasdair McIntyre

#17. I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Ksenia Solo

#18. Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle.

#19. With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Frederick Soddy

#20. I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

Thomas L. Dumm

#21. For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#22. Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?"
"I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct.

Cassandra Clare

#23. Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

Joshua Waitzkin

#24. Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.

Elizabeth Goudge

#25. It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Gregory Maguire

#26. You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'

P189

Veronica Roth

#27. Besides, if comics have taught us anything, it's that death is rarely a permanent condition."
"But we're not superheroes," May argued.
"Speak for yourself," Jackdaw told her.

Cherie Priest

#28. If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Wayne Dyer

#29. Failure is not a permanent condition.

Angela Duckworth

#30. Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

Egon Friedell

#31. The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

Aaron Siskind

#32. Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

#33. You think that the mental anguish you are experiencing is a permanent condition, but for the vast majority of people it is only a temporary state. (But what if I'm special? What if I'm in the minority?)

Jenny Offill

#34. I'd say she is nothing short of a miracle, son."
"I already knew that," I said, a small smile touching my lips.

Fisher Amelie

#35. Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#36. A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

Juan Ramon Jimenez